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Bilingualism
In assignment one, we demonstrated four terms figured world, actor, artifact, and literacy
practice. We have picked figured words, observed their 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. 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 do 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 the advantages and disadvantages from learning second languages? 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 experienced learning English as a second
language at ELTI, 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 that can teach me. Also in school, leaning English
was not that important to learn it at that time, although I was pushing myself to learn it because it
was my hobby to learn languages and that what helped me to be a bilingual. However, I was
taking it more serious later when I became 19 and that because I have decided to study abroad. I
went to ELTI to catch up with what I have not learned in school. At ELTI, there were a lot of
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your portfolio,notate your secondaft of assignment twoanswering thelowing questions:
If you were to writethis paper again,what would you dodifferently? Thinkin specific terms,like planning,development oftopic, collectingsources, etc.What could I (theteacher) have donedifferently to helpyou prepare thisassignment? Thinkin terms of specific
activities,exercises, or classwork that I could doin order to help youunderstand theassignment more,address theassignment moreappropriately, etc.
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students from all over the world and from my country; however, because students from my
country Arabic are their first language it was one of my difficulties to learn English perfectly,
because I would not practice it when my environment has those students. So I decided to make
foreign friends from other countries to practice and use what I have learned 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 from all over the world. However, there is one of the
disadvantages that I did not like when I started to learn English which is I have started to mix out
or miss out my first language, I have started to forget some words and I have start to become
weak in some other skills of my first language.
After I chose my topic for assignment two, now it is the time to choose my sources that
are going to provide me with some information and support my thesis. So for the first source I
chose Al-Sheikhs article "Teaching And Learning English As a Second / Foreign Language." I
chose this particular as a source 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; however, I am going
to address the use of the first language to learn the second language. Second, I chose Haiwens
article "Latino Emergent Bilingual Youth In High Schools: Transacting Strategies For Academic
Success." 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
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this article is going to help me to support my opinion that other countries like my country for
example, should have the same things in their schools. My third source is from DeKeysers
article "Age Effects In Second Language Learning: Stepping Stones Toward Better
Understanding."I chose this article 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 supportive for me to my thought. The fourth
source I chose it from Hornings article "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 from Irene Thompsons article
"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 sixth source
is going to be from Lewis, Benny on "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 countries. The seventh source is going to be from "Learning A
Second Language: When & Why."This article addresses when and why students should lean
other languages, when is the right time to learn other languages, and what are the advantages to
learn it earlier and what are the disadvantages to learn it late. And why people prefer to learn
other languages. Also it addresses the advantages of learning second languages. My eighth
source is from Annes article "Why Learn a Foreign Language? Benefits of Bilingualism." This
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article is different than the other because it focuses more in my 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
discussing the topic of being bilingual or second language learner. I think there is a different
between the terms that the article would discuss.
Generally, bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages in most cases; however, in
my opinion bilingualism it cannot 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 it is not that it. Bilingualism is also by knowing other cultures,
religions, or communities 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.
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 other languages
because they are so curios about them and they would like to know much more about it or they
would like to know what it is going on when two people are talking by using another language.
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 reason is, According to the article, "Learning A Second Language: When &
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Why." It said that Additional reasons for foreign language study include global economic
competition and national security. which I think it means that governments can use learning
other languages 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 translators, but by learning another language business
men do not need to have a translators in order 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 youngest 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 be 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
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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, 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.
what is the advantages? and the disadvantages of being bilingual? the answer is vary from
a person to person. there are many advantages of learning second languages, the first advantage
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is when student learn second language it makes their mind more strong; in other words, while
students are trying to use both languages the ability of memorizing effect their brain positively
because they are going to increase the ability of memorizing and promptitude. Second advantage
is, when people some time try to learn second languages that influence then to learn third and
forth languages. My third advantage is, people love to know about other cultures and it might be
better to know about them by using their languages because that might take off some
misconception. However, as I said before there are disadvantages too. One of the disadvantages
is, some people misunderstand that learning another languages it means you should get red if
your culture, your language, or you identity, and that is going to effect the people around them
because they will give a worst image about bilingualism.
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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Alaa Bazuhayr
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ENGL 1102-017
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