Bilingual education helps children acquire more languages later in life



Bilingual education helps children acquire more languages later in life

Introduction

The contestation and reformulation of Bilingual education in the United States has different political, social, historical, cultural and economic aspects. It is necessary to discuss and understand current challenges and varying provisions of this approach towards education. This paper will have a discussion on the bilingual education in detail, and it will argue that bilingual education helps children acquire more languages later in life. Bilingual education is the study of two languages. It mostly involves the utilization of the following languages; such as,

Mother tongue

International language.

Regional or national language

People who speak two languages ??is known as bilingual. Since the language is a function of social groupings, than being belongs simultaneously to two different social groups. Children, who grow up bilingual, do not feel the two languages ??as different at home. Quite naturally, they get used to with different ways of life. They can often identify both languages as their own language. These children learn to dynamically adapt the situation and environment. They can transfer this capability to any situation. Generally, it is easy for them to find their way in other countries and cultures as they have already learned to adapt to the different cultures and countries (Ricento, 2013).

Discussion

Bilingual education can take many forms depending on the prestige of the language in different societies and social classes; such as:

Bilingualism Elite, which commonly occurs in highly educated, social and well-off students. In this case, the learned language is one of the most useful international languages of business, science and politics.

Dual language program targets natives and immigrants with mixed languages (minority and the majority) for enrichment, pluralism and sustainability in acquiring language.

Bilingualism popular, which occurs most often in immigrants or people using their less prestigious language in the country (for example, indigenous peoples in South America) (Crawford, 2004).

Significance

The bilingualism is very important from which most children do not aware initially; they only notice its importance and value when they come into contact with other children who speak only one language. The bilingual children can speak both languages ??and can respond to different language easily. However, they routinely go through phases where they prefer one on the other language. Here, parents should not push them to speak a distinct language if the child does not respond in the language in which he or she was raised. Sometimes, this refusal reflects a temporary defiance against one or the other parent, but often also an attempt to adapt to the monolingualism in daycare or school (Barac & Bialystok, 2012).

For parents, the bilingualism of their children is often a conscious decision and the desire to communicate with the child in their own mother tongue. Parents have different mother tongues; the rule might be 'one parent - one language'. Hence, there is a probability that the child would speak both languages, of his mother and his father. This allows parents and children to build a ...