Simple: A cultural and marketing phenomenon known as the U.S. Latino market." - Bromely Aguilar Associates, media kit, 1999 Over 35 million Latinos live in the United States alone. Every minute, the U.S. Latino population grows by 2.5 people. From a marketing perspective, that is another 150 potential customers arriving every single hour or 3,600 per day. With the release of the latest U.S. Census information confirming that Latinos are here to stay, passing African Americans as the largest minority group in the country, marketers would be foolish
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.
The United States Census Bureau estimates in 2006 that more than 44 million people (14.3%) of the population are Hispanic. It is predicted that by the year 2050 one fourth of the population will be Hispanic (US Census Bureau, 2008). Even though geographically they originate from nearby countries, the Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban and Central/South American each have their own culture and traditions. The linguistic, political, social, economic, religious, and familial statuses of these cultures are presented in their own traditions. “Hispanics, wherever they reside in the United States, share the heritage of the Spanish Language” Shaefer (pg.
The poverty rates in Mexico continue to rise and crime is high. Unlike Puerto Ricans, Mexican Americans have no “free pass” to access the United States. Scores of Mexican, Cubans and Central-South Americans have lost there lives trying to enter into the United States for the chance of a better existence. Puerto Ricans The American Fact Finder provided by the U.S. Census Bureau website reports approximately 3,987,947 people in the United States during 2006 are Puerto Ricans. Puerto Ricans like Mexican Americans, who are born in the United States of immigrant parents report that English is the language most spoken.
A section of the Act required schools to work to overcome language barriers that interfered with language-minority students’ learning (Crawford, 1989). Also, in 1975, Congress amended the Voting Rights Act to require bilingual ballots in jurisdictions where language minorities exceeded 5% of the population and where illiteracy rates exceeded national norms (Lessow-Hurley, 1990). Throughout the Reagan presidency, Secretary of Education, William J. Bennett, was a vocal antagonist of bilingual education. He made public speeches attacking the Bilingual Education Act, and in 1985, he appointed antagonists of bilingual education to the National Advisory and Coordinating Council on Bilingual
Within the last 30 years immigration has swept through the country. As American’s we have the idea that those moving into the United States will embrace the Western culture and learn to speak English, our native language. However, should this be a requirement for all immigrants entering the U.S.? In “Bassackwards: Construction Spanish and Other Signs of the Times,” Jay Nordlinger argues that immigrants should, in fact, take on the challenge of learning the language of English when living in America, and more specifically the workplace. Through out his article he states the reasons as to why he thinks this should be the case.
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It is important for the civilians to speak English because many tourists visit Puerto Rico, and many of them are from the United States. Their flag just like the United States is red white and blue. Unlike the United States the Puerto Rican flag has five horizontal stripes and blue sideways triangle with one star. Puerto Rico’s population is about four millions. The area of Puerto Rico is slightly less than three times the area of Rhode Island.
Bilingual Families In some countries, it is common for children to learn two or even more languages at a time and use each of these languages daily to communicate with the people around them. They may utilize Spanish to communicate with their father, French to communicate with their Mother, and they may attend an Italian speaking school. The possibilities are endless. In countries where a dominant language is spoken, such as the United States, families face a dilemma: do they teach their child the language of their heritage and have them be bilingual or do they want them to know only English so that they can better understand the country they are living in? Such a question is faced by almost every family that chooses to immigrate to a new country.
Should English should be a compulsory subject in year 12? Janet Szeto English has been around for more than five hundred years. Nearly up to 1.8 billion people around the world speak the language. Should English be compulsory in year 12? I think so, even though people maybe think otherwise.