RUNNING HEAD: Second Language Fluency Second Language Fluency Kim Brown Grand Canyon University: ESL-523N January 23, 2013 Sandra Brown was born in Mexico City, Mexico and came to the United States in the year 1995. For Mexico education begins very early. Preschool is very intense and the children start learning at the ages of three or four. The children in preschool go through three very difficult levels of learning before they even get to the first grade. the public schools in Mexico are free and required up to the ninth grade.
I think the aim of literacy is to teach children/young people the ability to understand the English language both verbally and non-verbally. Children/young people should be encouraged to explore the way the English language works for example through phonics for vocabulary, reading, writing and spelling, this will help children and young people to have the knowledge to be able to read, write and spell with confidence. Children and young people will be able to expand their vocabulary through holding literacy skills. Being a secondary school the school has an English department that teaches literacy to student from year 7 (key stage 3) through to year 13 (A level), students have 3 hours of English a week up to the end of their GSCS’s, A level English students would have 5 hours a week. We also have core studies, which are run by HLTA in the learning support department.
Looking back on my English experience here at Torrance High I believe I have learned a lot. In my last year at middle school they had us pick our scheduled for the next year at Torrance High, I decided to go into the honors program for English( it was one of my stronger subjects). I got I think the best English 1 teacher in the school. Mr. Duvall taught me a better way to organize the information I had read. I got a B first semester.
Salvador Manriquez told me his life story in the areas of background/education, college/goals, and hobbies along with his interests. Salvador Manriquez was born on April 14, 1992. People call him Sal for short. His father’s name is Salvador Manriquez, he’s part Spanish and part Mexican. He was born on September 8th in Mexico.
ELL Case Study By Maria L Le CI 5644: Working with Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students in the Mainstream Classroom Maria Le CI 5644 ELL Case Study David is a 1st grade, Spanish speaking student attending Pillsbury Math, Science, and Technology school in Minneapolis. He began at Pillsbury MST for the first time this school-year. Pillsbury has Native Language Literacy (NLL) program for Spanish speaking students. Had this program been unavailable, David would have qualified for ELL services. Spanish is the primary language spoken at home and among his Spanish speaking peers.
People’s attitude towards the use of standard and non-standard English varies depending on their upbringing, culture and subjectiveness ass the two forms of English are different in purpose and are context dependent. The use of non-standard English can be to save time due to its ease in its construction and can also enable communicating ones beliefs and culture. However unlike non-standard English, Standard English make it difficult for interlocutors to build closeness due to it mainly being used to convey prestige, power, formality and professionalism. Due to the advancements in technology, many people have shifted from once using Standard English to now using non-standard English majority of the time. Since Standard English is usually time consuming to construct and difficult to use, people find it easier to use non-standard English, where the governing rules and grammar are more flexible making it efficient and easy to use.
One signal is age. Rodriguez mentions age throughout the essay, and it allows the readers to identify his change and continuity over time. 6. At first, Rodriguez has a very close connection with his parents, and he communicates with them in Spanish. As time goes on, Rodriguez realizes that he must know English to “fit in” with the society.
When I first started school, I attended F.L.I.C.S. Elementary School. ( Foreign Language Immerson Cultural Studies). There were four total languages: French, Japanese, Chinese, and Spanish. What made this school stand out from other schools was that not only do you have the regular elementary school naptimes and classes, but your parents get to assign you a particular language to be in.
English as a second language or ESL classes are offered for new students and full immersion classes are offered to the more advanced to help advance the movement. These classes help native speakers from both languages learn the others
Throughout the years however I have found myself to be in situations where knowledge of diversity has been key and my approach to handling those situations to have a positive outcome has depended on the little I have learned and practiced over the years. Our learning styles are the different ways in which we perceive and process what we experience. I plan to use the learning wheel to my advantage by focusing not so much on my strength but in way to strengthen my