Essays on Bilingualism

Advances in technology, increased mobility and globalization have facilitated the development of multiculturalism across the globe yet some deeply ingrained cultures persist to date. Indeed, many countries have maintained an official language, yet their inhabitants may have different first languages, or what is commonly known...

Language is a complex and unique system that allows us to communicate with others. It also enables us to express how we are feeling, ideas we might have, and thought that we are thinking. We don’t only communicate through words, but also through body language...

Did you know that our world has about 6,500 languages and maybe even more? Sadly, about only 20 percent of Americans speak a language other than English. The new generation of students is growing up in a society that is increasingly bilingual. While foreign language...

In “Bilingual Education is Necessary,” María Estella Brisk expresses the opinion that bilingual education is a vital part of the American education system; as an integral component of the American education system, the programs help to provide an equality of education to all students regardless...

Our world is becoming increasingly multilingual. Many children are being raised as bilinguals. Bilingualism is a necessity, as a child’s parents may not be fluent in the majority language spoken in the community. Therefore, the child may learn one language at home and another at...

Bilingualism is a natural phenomenon worldwide. Unwittingly, however, monolingualism has been used as a standard to characterize and define bilingualism and multilingualism in linguistic research. Such a conception led to a “fractional” “irregular” and “distorted” view of bilingualism, which is becoming rapidly outmoded in the...

Language has always been associated with the evolution of humans as intellectual beings. Its role in a functioning society is indispensable since it sets the grounds for discourse and development. Other than that, language is considered as a driving force in the expansion of knowledge...

In recent years, bilingual education, a dual-language program designed to provide equal educational opportunities to students of limited English proficiency, has become a controversial topic in the United States. While some people firmly believe that one has the freedom to speak whichever language one chooses,...

The purpose of this essay is to analyze the benefits of being bilingual for a person’s cognitive development. Unlike the understanding of bilingualism during the early 20 century, where nationalistic policymakers and researchers considered bilingualism interference and hindrance of the cognitive function that negatively affected...

Studies that involve bilingual acquisition studies highlight the frequency of perception in which language one is stable while language two is compelling because it experiences changes in development. These studies question the stability of language one concerning a context where there is frequent activation of...

Due to the recent increase in globalisation and population movements, cultures from all around the world are coming into contact with each other, resulting in a growing number of multicultural societies. These communities lead to families and children who identify with more than one culture,...

The present study addresses the differences and similarities among students’ beliefs about language learning. The participant students (n = 70) completed Beliefs About Language Learning Inventory (BALLI)and a demographic information questionnaire. Learning a second language upgrades the procurement methods that can be connected later to...

Activity #1 The court case that brought about the Consent Decree was the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) et al. v. Florida State Board of Education on August 14, 1990. The basis of the lawsuit was that the LULAC believed that the state...

The bilingual experience appears to influence the brain from infancy to old age. You can never be too old to learn something new. There could be many reasons that lead to the need to learn new languages but, the advantages are vast. My mother tongue...