5.1 Big Idea: The United States and Canada have a few things in common. The French founded the colony of Quebec in present day Canada. The Spanish settled in Florida, Texas, and the present Southern Untied States. Throughout 1800's new technology fueled economic growth in Canada and The United States. In 1900's The United States and Canada assumed leading roles in the world. The United States and Canada share a number of physical features. 7.1 Big Idea: Over time the Northeast has developed into
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overcome the language barrier in order to be able to help their children navigate the world. In Perriera et al. (2006) study, many of the participants expressed feeling helpless, alienated, and unable to advocate for their children and families since they did not speak English. As children learn English in school, they sometimes come to resent their parents’ Spanish monolingualism or become embarrassed by their parents (Perreria et al., 2006, 14). This tension between the younger English speaking population
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and work in this country after graduation, you need to improve your english.” This is an assumption that all asian are not from this country. Also, it implies that all asian cannot speak english well. Most people can speak and understand english pretty well, it’s just that writing it out is hard. So I think that it’s offensive to judge someone essay on how well they can understand english. I myself can speak and understand english clearly, but I’m not so good when it comes to writing. My reaction
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My honors seminar would be called The Different Dialects of the English Language: What We Can Gain From the Way We Speak. This discussion based class would aim to understand how and why different dialects of the english language are formed and what judgements others make based on the dialect a person is speaking. We would begin by talking about why dialects are created and the different dialects we think we have. The discussion would focus on the formation of dialects and then shift to the perception
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idea that we speak different languages and that we are judged by the way we communicate with each other. She is really amazed by the way other people speak so she decides to use that in her work. When she walks down the street she observes all the different types of English. When she was a child she spoke two different types of English. She spoke proper English and broken English depending on who she was around. When she was in school she had to speak proper English because that is where it felt
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Among the several languages spoken all through the nation, there are many unique Native American languages, in addition the large number of languages that immigrants from everywhere throughout the world have brought into the nation. Together with English, Italian, German, Dutch, Polish, French, Spanish, Chinese, also Japanese are only a portion of the more than two hundred languages spoken in the United States. Many students whom have immigrant parents or grandparents may experience issues in schools
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reason with the reader and explain to them why multilingual education are necessary. She starts her article by showing a list of data- “some 8 in 10 Americans speak only English”, “while some 200 million Chinese students learning English, only 24000 American are studying Chinese”, “More than half of European Union citizensspeak a language other
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I were born, all we heard from our parents and grandparents was the Spanish language. Even though my mother was born in America and she spoke English fluently, Spanish was her first language. As my sister and I started to grow into toddlers we only spoke Spanish, so it was not a surprise to me when my mother told me that my sister and I got kicked out of pre-school because we did not know how to read or write in English and it was difficult for our teachers to understand us. A few weeks later, my
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Comparison the cities of Canada and the U.S The article on About.com, “Comparing the City in the United States and Canada” by Ping Zhou discussed the differences between the cities of the U.S and Canada. These two countries are tied together either geographically or economically. Though those cities share almost the same traits with each other, there are still some differences among them when “broke down some of those traits”: Sprawl, Transportation and Ethnic Diversity. The first comparison
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Raising a Truly Bilingual Child Children who speak more than one language are common in many parts of the world. However, raising your child to become truly bilingual can be quite a task here in the west. The constant bombardment of monolingual pop culture is one of the reasons for this. After all, when your child’s favorite cartoon shows are in English - what else can you expect? The good news is that kids are hardwired to learn new kinds of communication and there are things you can do to facilitate
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