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Alaa BazuhayrProfessor Walden
ENGL 1102-01714 October 2013
Bilingualism
In assignment one, we demonstrated four terms figured world, actor, artifact, and literacy
practice. We have picked a figured word, observed its actors and artifacts, and included literacy
practices other than reading and writing. However, for this assignment I decided to choose a
topic related to my figured world showing why I did choose it or why it is important for my
figured world to exist. So because I chose English Language Training Institution (ELTI) as a
figured world and I observed its actors and their artifacts (physical reactions), for assignment two
I chose to discuss learning second language. Precisely, I am going to discuss bilingualism;
moreover, why people choose to learn second language? When is the right time to start learning
second languages? Where is the right places or the right environments to learn second language?
What are peoples expectations from learning second language? What are the advantages and
disadvantages from learning second languages? If student chose to learn it from foreign teachers
what are the benefits from teaching foreign students? Lastly, I am going to discuss how people
practice and use the language that they been studying it for awhile, and what are the difficulties
from learning second language and being bilingual. Because I am international student and I
experience this topic, I chose to discuss learning second language or bilingualism. As many
student I started to learn second language (English) since I was young; however, I was not
perfect at this time because there was no professional people can teach me, also in school leaning
English was not that important to learn it at that time, so I was pushing myself to learn in because
it is my hobby and that what helped me now as a bilingual. However, I was taking it more
serious late when I was 19 because I decided to study abroad. I went to ELTI to catch up with
what I have not learned in school. At ELTI, there was a lot of students from my country or
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students whose Arabic is their first language and that was my difficulty because I could not
practice it if my environment has those students. So I decided to make foreign friends to practice
and use my English with them. One of the advantages from learning second language is I chose
my English to learn about new cutlers and to communicate with different people. However, there
is one of the disadvantages that I do not like it when I start to learn English which is I start to mix
out or miss out my first languages, I start to forget some words and I start to become weak in
some skills of my first languages.
After I chose my topic for assignment two, now it is the time to choose my sources that is
going to provides me with some information and it is going to support my side of agreement. So
for the first source I chose Hussein, Basel Al-Sheikh in "Teaching And Learning English As a
Second / Foreign Language." I chose this particularsource because I am going to use it to
address one way on how students learn second language. This article explains how students use
their mother tongue (their first languages) to learn other languages. Precisely, this article
addresses how Arab teachers use their first languages to teach students English or how students
use Arabic to learn English. Im not going to focus only in Arabic mother tongue in particular in
my paper work; I am going to address the use of the first language to learn the second language.
Second, I chose Haiwen Chu, et al in "Latino Emergent Bilingual Youth In High Schools:
Transacting Strategies For Academic Success." And I chose it because it addresses how ESL
programs play a role in teaching English as a second language, which I only notice it here in
United States schools (elementary schools). So this article is going to help me to make my
opinion stronger that countries should have the same things in their schools. My third source is
from DeKeyser, Robert M. in "Age Effects In Second Language Learning: Stepping Stones
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Toward Better Understanding."And I chose it because it is going to help me in how age plies a
role in learning languages. I believe that the youngest you are the more efficient you going to
learn second language. So I think this article is very helpful for me to support my thought. My
fourth source is from Horning, Alice S. in "Theory And Practice First And Second Language
Acquisition: Parallels And Differences." This source is talking about how student practice
second language. In this article it is mentioned something about grammar practices, which is one
of the important base of learning second language. My fifth source is Irene Thompson, Irene.
"Language Learning Difficulty ." This article discusses what is the difficulty of learning second
language. And how to get red of those issues to have a perfect second language. The seventh
source is going to be from Lewis, Benny. "How to Practice a Foreign Language for Free without
Traveling." Because this article is discussing one of the very better way to study another
languages without forcing your self to travail and study this languages from somewhere else. I
can use this source to support my idea that people can learn another language without traveling
to the second languages original country. The eighth source is going to be from "Learning A
Second Language: When & Why." This article addresses when I why student should lean another
language. When is the right time to learn another language and what is the advantage to learn it
earlier and what is the disadvantage to learn it late. And why people prefer to learn another
language. Also it addresses the advantages of learning second languages. My ninth source is
from Anne Merritt, Anne. "Why Learn a Foreign Language? Benefits of Bilingualism." This
article is different than the other because it focuses more in y tropic that I chose which is
bilingualism. This article is discussing the benefits of being bilingual. My final one is from
Sugunasiri, Suwanda H.J. in "Bilingualism and Second Language Learning." This article is too
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discussing too the topic of being bilingual or second language learner. I think there is a different
between the term that the article would discuss.
Generally, bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages in most cases; however, in my
opinion bilingualism it can not define by this definition only. Bilingualism it can be more than
speaking or writing in two languages. It is right that you should have both of the languages skills
to be able to be bilingual but is not that it. Bilingualism also knows another culture, religion, or
community that are related to those languages that you would like to be bilingual in. I can say
that by learning my languages you should know more about my culture or my religion because
some aspects of these things can not be explain without learning its languages. So people choose
to learn second language for many reasons. First, some people have curiosity about the world. So
from this reason I can say people like to learn another language because they are so curios about
it and they would like to know much more about it or they would like to know what is going on
when two people are talking by using another languages. Second, It sounds good. Some people
like to learn another languages because they are so reverent about it, they like their intonations
and how world sounds in their ears, like for example people like to learn France because they
think it sounds sophisticated or elegant, and some people like to learn British English because
they think they will sound intelligent when they speak with it. Third, According to the article,
"Learning A Second Language: When & Why." it said that Additional reasons for foreign
language study include global economic competition and national security. which I think it
means that government can use learning another language in war for example to know their
enemies plans and movements. and also they use it for business aspects because now many
business conferences are held internationally; however, they use one languages in it with
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translators, but by learning another languages business men do not need to have a translators in
order to to their jobs. Finally, people learn second languages because they want to study abroad
or they would like to immigrate to another country so they can communicate with those people in
that country. The age can decide wither a person is going to be perfect or not in learning second
languages. It been said that the young you are the more well you are going to learn another
language. The right time or age to start learning second languages is when you are a child.
According to "Age Effects In Second Language Learning: Stepping Stones Toward Better
Understanding it said that the measurement of event-related potentials, or neuro-imaging to
examine the areas of the brain and therefore the kinds of knowledge involved, which means
children do not have many events in their brain as adults or in other world their mind are empty
at this time so by using this method they are going to focus more in theses two languages.
However, environments play a big role in learning second language. When you do not choose the
right place to learn another languages it is going to impossible to be perfect on it. The example of
environment that I mean is learning another language in a place that does not provide a right
place to practice what you have learned. Also, learning another languages from not professional
people can lead to big problem because you are going to be used of write or speak by the same
way and it is going too hard to get rid of it. Where people start to learn second languages?
usually there are two ways to learn second languages, it can be at schools since they are young at
ESL program with the help of native speakers or at their countries with the help of teachers who
speak the same language as their students. According to the article "Latino Emergent Bilingual
Youth In High Schools: Transacting Strategies For Academic Success." it is said that Recently
there has been a plethora of studies that address the failure of U.S. schools in educating Latino
students in general I support that thought that if the U.S. schools fail to educate Latino students,
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that is because if the U.S. schools do not provide the right ESL programs for foreign students
they are not going to be successful on their other subjects because English is they key to
understand those subjects. However, in another case is when students learn second language
from teachers who speak same language. According to "Teaching And Learning English-As-A-
Second / Foreign Language Through Mother Tongue." It is fine that students can learn second
languages from teachers who speak the same language; however, the problem is when those
teachers use their first languages to teach students the second languages which I think it is not
professional that is not going to help students for better understanding the first language should
not be used in second/foreign language classrooms, since the aim of second language teaching is
to approximate near-native competence. Finally, when it comes to keep what you have learned
this where most students face our problem. So in my opinion the use of what you have learn is
the best thing you must do so you do not forget what you have learned as many people say use
it or loss it.
In conclusion, Learning second language can be for fun but not all the time. Because some
people lay on learning second languages on their future for studies or jobs, being bilingual is
going to be taking serious at this time. What I mean from that is people expectation can differ
from person to person. However, all the expectation lead to literacy practices as I said before it is
not only about learning how to write or read in other languages it is also communication between
cultures via learning their languages.
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