BENEFITS OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION
Bilingual vs Monolingual education: Which one is a disadvantage?
Learning
Conclusion
Bilingual children benefit academically in many ways. Because they are able to switch between languages, they develop more flexible approaches to thinking through problems. Their ability to read and think in two different languages promotes higher levels of abstract thought, which is critically important in learning
Bilingual forms of education are the most effective for building of language learner knowledge, maintaining resources and cultural identify, closing the gap between language learners and native speakers, and producing language learns with higher long-term academic outcomes than those educated monolingual.
Global
Bilingual individuals have the opportunity to:
- Participate in the global community in more ways,
- Get information from more places, and
- Learn more about people from other cultures.
Social-Emotional
Bilingual children are also able to make new friends and create strong relationships in their second language an important personal skill in our increasingly diverse society.
Monolingual View
- Fostering the minority language and ethnic differences might provoke conflict and disharmony among students and in the learning environment.
- View the minority language as a handicap to be overcome by the school system
Hypotheses
Cognitive
Bilingual View
- Bilingual and monolingual students differ significantly in reading comprehension scores.
- There will be significant interaction between linguistic and proficiency in reading comprehension scores.
- Male and female students differ significantly in their reading comprehension scores.
- There will be significant interaction between linguistic and gender in reading comprehension scores.
- Bilingualism has positive effects on children´s linguistic and educational development.
- The level of development of children´s mother tongue is a strong predictor of their second language development.
- Understanding math concepts and solving word problems more easily.
- Developing strong thinking skills.
- Using logic.
- Focusing, remembering, and making decisions.
- Thinking about language.
- Learning other language.
- In addition, research indicates that bilingualism may delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
Myths
- Students languish in bilingual programs for year.
- Bilingual education is threat to unity of this country.
- Bilingual education does not help the acquisition in English.
- Bilingual education segregates children.
What is a Bilingual education?
What is Monolingual Education?
Truth
Any system of school education in which, at a given moment in time and for a varying amount of time, simultaneously or consecutively, instruction is planned and given in at least two languages.
Is also said of a text, dictionary, or conversation written or conducted in only one language, and of an entity in which a single language is either used or officially recognized (in particular when being compared with bilingual or multilingual entities or in the presence of individuals speaking different languages)
- 80% of bilingual students mainstream into a monolingual program within 3 year.
- The goal of bilingual education is to build successful, productive, bilingual, and bi cultural citizens.
- The preeminence of the English language has never been threatened.