The Pros And Cons Of Bilingual Education
Introduction
Bilingualism has become very popular within the last couple of years. It is growing into society everyday, making it second nature to some people. In fact there are actually more bilingual individuals around the world compared to monolingual, suggesting that many countries are bilingual (Bialystok et al., 2012). A bilingual individual is defined by society as being able to fluently speak two languages (Woolfolk et al., 2012). Contrastingly, a monolingual individual is defined as only being able to speak one language, which is often called the mother tongue (Woolfolk et al., 2012).
Bilingual education is certainly a subject of controversy because there is a great number of positives and negatives that are associated with the topic. Many individuals agree that children should be fluent in two …show more content…
However, I am personally a monolingual, meaning I can only speak one language. However in my elementary school, when you reached grade 6 you started learning small amounts of French. It was mandatory to learn and pass French class, until grade 9. Because it was mandatory I did take this class, even though I hated learning a second language. I thought it was very hard, mostly because it took a lot of time and effort, which I didn’t have. I felt that resources were lacking in our school, because the teachers did not speak fluent French. Because of this it was more difficult to learn properly. I can understand both the pros and cons to bilingual education; however, I am more influenced by the negative points, due to the fact that nations are lacking resources for instruction. If the resources provided are inappropriate or lacking credentials, the students will ultimately be affected. Even though bilingual individuals are more advanced regarding their problem solving skills, their memory, and their job qualifications, without the proper useful resources, an individual will not achieve
Bilingualism has become very popular within the last couple of years. It is growing into society everyday, making it second nature to some people. In fact there are actually more bilingual individuals around the world compared to monolingual, suggesting that many countries are bilingual (Bialystok et al., 2012). A bilingual individual is defined by society as being able to fluently speak two languages (Woolfolk et al., 2012). Contrastingly, a monolingual individual is defined as only being able to speak one language, which is often called the mother tongue (Woolfolk et al., 2012).
Bilingual education is certainly a subject of controversy because there is a great number of positives and negatives that are associated with the topic. Many individuals agree that children should be fluent in two …show more content…
However, I am personally a monolingual, meaning I can only speak one language. However in my elementary school, when you reached grade 6 you started learning small amounts of French. It was mandatory to learn and pass French class, until grade 9. Because it was mandatory I did take this class, even though I hated learning a second language. I thought it was very hard, mostly because it took a lot of time and effort, which I didn’t have. I felt that resources were lacking in our school, because the teachers did not speak fluent French. Because of this it was more difficult to learn properly. I can understand both the pros and cons to bilingual education; however, I am more influenced by the negative points, due to the fact that nations are lacking resources for instruction. If the resources provided are inappropriate or lacking credentials, the students will ultimately be affected. Even though bilingual individuals are more advanced regarding their problem solving skills, their memory, and their job qualifications, without the proper useful resources, an individual will not achieve