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Essay Instructions: Bilingualism-The subject of bilgualism and it's impact on cognitive development has always been an in interest of mine. When I first learned Spanish I went to Mexico. I arrived in a small town , was dropped off by friends and started a 6 wk intensive course in Spanish and lived with a Mexican family. I did not even know how to say "Buenas Dias". Unfortunately the town I went to was San Miguel De Allende, and it has a large foreign English-speaking community-so unfortunately I could easily speaking English. I will never forget my struggle to put together my first sentences in Spanish. Learning another language means can be a humbling experience. So when I returned to the states, I had great simpathy for the children who at that time were put in 1st grade in an English only class and were expected to sink or swim.
For extra credit, write at least 10 sentences on how Biligualism aout the consequences of bilingualism.
Consequences for Language, Cognition, Development, and the Brain by Viorica Marian, Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah, Margarita Kaushanskaya, Henrike K. Blumenfeld & Li Sheng Every year, thousands of middle- and upper-class American children study a foreign language for enrichment.
These children, their parents, and their teachers are guided by the belief that knowing another language "is good for you." At the same time (and sometimes in the same schools) thousands of other children?usually from immigrant and lower-class backgrounds?are discouraged from and sometimes forbidden to speak their native language.
Their families are told that communication in their native languages will prevent them from mastering English and that raising children with more than one language will "confuse" them and have long-lasting, detrimental effects. Given these two contradictory perspectives, what does research say about the consequences of bilingualism? What Clinicians Should Know Knowledge of bilingualism suggests the following linguistic, cognitive, and neurophysiological differences between bilingual and monolingual speakers: Linguistic differences Bilingual children develop an earlier understanding of taxonomic relationships than their monolingual peers (e.g., car and bus are vehicles).
This understanding is not dependent on vocabulary size, but could be influenced by the structural features of the speaker's language. Bilingual adults are better than monolingual adults at learning new words. Bilinguals use a variety of word-learning strategies with similar efficiency and are less susceptible to interference from conflicting orthographic information during word-learning. Linguistic input co-activates both languages in bilinguals; when bilinguals hear or read words in one language, partially overlapping linguistic structures in the other language also are activated.
Cognitive differences http://www.asha.org/Publications/leader/2009/091013/f091013a.htm Bilinguals may be able to inhibit irrelevant verbal and nonverbal information with greater ease than monolinguals. Inhibitory control ability is slower to decline with age in bilinguals than in monolinguals.
The average age of dementia onset is later in bilinguals than in monolinguals. Bilingual children have been found to exhibit superior performance in divergent thinking, figure-ground discrimination, and other related meta-cognitive skills. Neural differences Bilateral processing of language (and other nonverbal tasks) is most likely to occur only in early bilinguals. Monolinguals and bilinguals use similar neural regions for language processing. However, late bilinguals are likely to activate the LIFG differentially for processes in which the LIFG plays a crucial role, such as phonological and syntactic processing.
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Essay Instructions: This is an English 102 research essay on the topic: "How Raising Bilingual Children affects their learning skills, language and language aquisition skills, thinking, their identity and sense of belonging, culture, bilingualism and psycho-linguistics."

Focus on how raising a child and teaching them two languages at the same time ever since they are born and how this may have the above affects on them.

This essay MUST have AT LEAST 4 SCHOLARLY SOURCES and also have 4 other sources with a total of 8 sources minimum.

These sources must be recent, mut be between 2008-2013.

These sources must all be cited in the essay and as well as cited on the works-cited page in the end.

There must be paraphrasing used in the essay and it cannot be poorly paraphrased, because they will scan the essay for plagarism, poorly paraphrased sentences or paragraphs will result in plagarism.

There must be at least ONE BLOCK CITATION. For example, if the block citation is 5 sentences long, then there must be 5 sentences following it to explain the use of this citation. If the block citation is one page long, then there must be one page of explaination of the citation following it.

There must also have multiple direct citations of sentences from sources used in the essay as well.

The above citations INCLUDING PARAPHRASING, must all have in-text citing and also be included on the works-cited page.

The introduction and Conclusion should have no use or very little use of outside sources.

The entire essay must be about 10% cited sources and 90% writer's own analytical writing.

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Essay Instructions: I need an essay on bilingualism including learning English as a second language in young children. I'm very interested in the development of language in young children, especially in children learning two languages at the same time.

Essay Instructions: I need two pages double space about my opinion in reference to a literature review about bilingualism based in the below list
Literature Review II. This review includes not only a synthesis of the information but also an analysis on first and second language acquisition theorists from Skinner, Chomsky, Krashen, Cummins . The review should include how the process of investigating the presented information has affected your view of bilingualism and of your own experience as a bilingual person. . A.P.A. citation style. The literature review should have a conclusion that includes not only your leanings but also your unanswered questions. Please follow the A.P.A. format