Second Language Reflection

He argues, “for an authentic code switching that involves valuing oneself and one 's culture while appreciating and understanding the codes of other cultures. It involves fluidly navigating multiple spaces and, in the process, creating new codes that embrace a more hybridized identity” (Emdin 178). To gain a hybrid identity, students obviously must obtain knowledge of other cultures. A great place for this would be in a class of immigrants from all over different parts of the world. All of the students taking the Basic English course with Mrs. Hamma are learning how to understand and appreciate others cultures.

Additionally, I have created more goals that I hope will make this educational identity multidimensional. I want to learn as many languages as I can in order to connect with people on a global scale. Also, I hope to build a connection with my professors and mentors to learn about their journey in their educational career. Moreover, I plan to combine a variety of subjects such as Psychology, Philosophy, Sociology, Biology, Geology, Politics, Journalism, and English Literature in conjunction with Anthropology in order to think critically and holistically. Lastly, I aim to supplement my learning from inside of the classroom with what I learn outside of the classroom in order to grow into a well-rounded

The AATSP (The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese), not only supports the role of teachers, but also collaborates with professionals and researchers internationally to delve deeper into linguistic knowledge of all forms. After having the opportunity to absorb all of the insight Ying Jin had to offer, (ACTFL’s National Language Teacher of the Year) I found myself researching more about this organization’s role in foreign language education and in particular, how to emulate practices, tactics and creative intricacies applied in Jin’s classroom. The parallel guiding principles that sparked my interest to become a member of both these organizations is their dedication to advocating research in various bilingual professionals and the drive to enhance the quality of language (in learning and

Classroom activities should allow students to work together in diverse groups. In education it is important for students to talk about their own culture and learn about other cultures as well. Cultural and linguistic backgrounds are viewed as strengths from which educators can build pedagogy changes to incorporate students’ lives ( (Nieto, 2008). Students need to learn about the diversity in our society in order to have an acceptance and love for all people. Educators need to incorporate multicultural educational activities into the curriculum that promote acceptance among culture.

First of all, Language Awareness is a bridge which helps to connect English and foreign language in curriculum (Hawkins 1974 cited in Hawkins 1999). It provides a forum for learners and teachers to discuss a variety of languages in common vocabularies. For instance, children have the opportunity to learn numbers, colours and animals in three languages. Besides, these activities foster language awareness as teachers use children’s existing experience and knowledge of their first language in order to make sense of a new language (Bolitho 2003). This will help children to relate and understand better of the new language.

As a teacher, I am taking this opportunity to evaluate and make sense of what the articles are proposing - relating it to the real situations. When it is said that students’ attitude is one of the major factors that determine their success in language learning, I believe that it is true. There have been numerous researches that have been conducted on investigating the role of attitude in second language acquisition, spurred by the knowledge that all these negative attitudes can be changed. Factors like better teaching strategies, classroom and social environment can actually help in reducing negative attitude. Based on the understanding, there are two reasons why we have the attitudes of learning second language – all of these are interrelated.

The beneficiaries of this study are; Ministry of Education, teachers teaching English Second Language and learners. The Ministry will conduct in-service training workshops to help the teachers to acquire knowledge and skills. When the English teachers are well equipped on pronouncing English words, they will be in a position to help learners to improve on pronouncing English words. Learners will acquire the knowledge from teachers in English lessons and utilize the methods that will help them to improve their

In this paper will be outlined on the provision of support for bilingual learning, which is the mother tongue and English, which will be used in the process of teaching and learning activities. Int his activity, also involves the use of the first language that will help pupils assess their educational abilities and the need for linguistic support, bilingual support for teaching and learning, and connecting with families to increase participation and progress in student learning. Keywords: Bilingualism, Bilingual Acquisition, Second Language Acquisition (SLA), teaching English for Children Developchildren's ability tospeaktwolanguagesorbilingualis desirablemanyparents aroundthe world.It can be ascertained, the parents want their children to

Keeping in mind the end goal to enable learners to create certainty and confidence, cognitively teachers must examine the proposes of reading instruction and enable learners to create explanatory, procedural, and restrictive learning of these psychological methodologies, in this way assembling that would advance learners metacognitive control of particular learning strategies. The Linguistic foundations of reading and writing development is based on the viewpoint that the writer or reader uses their knowledge of the things around them and the structure of language to make connections of reading or writing content. According to research linguists, all cultures try to represent key aspects of their verbal language into their written languages. Based on major developments and contributions, " Letters and letter units correspond to particular sounds (phonemes); spaces in between words represent junctures in spoken language; and typographical RUNNING HEAD: Benchmark Reading Instruction features represent other linguistic properties (emphasis, the end of the sentence, etc.)"

A modern trend of teaching English prominence a lot on the use of Audio-visual materials to attract the interest of the students. These are considered to be an integral part of the teaching of foreign language in the highly developed countries. The exercise of pictures, films and lingua phone records infuses a new life I their bones. A teacher who is considerably dedicated to this work. Taps up all possible sources to procure the required material.