The employer picks the bilingual applicant for the position, because he/she can speak more than one language and you have a huge skill to use with non-speaking English customers. The top working industries in the U.S. that are looking for bilingual candidates are: health care services, financial services, social services, public services sales, marketing and tourism as well. Children between the ages 5-12 years of age are more easily to learn a second language because their brains are still developing into an adult brain. So once they learn the language they know the grammar and spelling in a different language, besides their own native tongue. According to the 2007 study by the College Board, they found that students with at least four years of taking a second language class score roughly 140 more points higher in all three sections of the
The children will learn math skills as well as reading, writing, life and sports skills amongst other subjects. These skills will open up and brighten futures for these children as they continue to learn and become better people. A good education and being around other children all the time will also help with their social skills. The population in the age group 0-14 girls and boys in Micronesia, Indonesia and the Philippines according to the CIA World Factbook is: Country | Total Population | Male age 0-14 | Female age 0-14 | Micronesia | 106,104 | 17,478 | 16,915 | Indonesia | 251,160,124 | 34,049,541 | 32,844,509 | Philippines | 105,720,644 | 18,339,398 | 17,607,472 | The 0-14 age group is very big in each of these counties in both the male and female categories. Micronesia is not as high in that age group as Indonesia and the Philippines; Micronesia’s population is a lot smaller, yet the 0-14 age group is still bigger than all the other age groups there.
Abstract The purpose of this study is to show thru statically driven data (taken from the The National Adult Literacy) the importance of being fluent and literate English in the United States. The National Adult Literacy Survey is the third and largest assessment of adult literacy funded by the Federal government and conducted by ETS. From the results of this study it was determined Many of the differences in English literacy proficiency between various racial or ethnic groups were due to differences in language backgrounds among the groups. Asian/Pacific Islander and Hispanic adults were more likely than whites to have been born in a country other than the United States, or to have been raised in homes where a language other than English was spoken. Only non-native English speakers with low levels of formal education were truly disadvantaged in the labor market by their lack of native English language skills.
Studies have shown that students who acquire a foreign language have displayed substantial improvements in standardized tests scores in the areas of reading, mathematics and writing, as well as higher scores on college entrance exams like the SAT and the ACT. Individuals who study another language have also obtained refined listening skills and a more complex understanding of their own native language. Studying a second language also allows the pupil the opportunities to be immersed in another culture besides the students own from learning not only the language itself but also the heritage and history of that culture. The American Council of Teaching Foreign Languages has claimed that acquiring another language increases a student's understanding of diversity and leads to more positive attitudes and a better sense of respect for people of other cultures. It's also opens opportunities to watch and understand foreign films and engage in conversations with people of different cultural backgrounds.
This situation of unfair admission rate happened not only on the students from Asia, but also on the Asian Americans. “Asian Americans applicants and admittances, on average, score higher on the SAT than students from any other race”, Quynh-Nhu Le, the author from the Harvard Crimson Admissions Blog, points out, “while the percentage of students belonging to most other racial minorities in highly selective colleges have gone up over the years, the percentage of Asian-American students has not”. According to the admission expert, Jean Webb, the Director of Admissions at Yale Law Scholl said: every college needs to make sure it has diversity of the campus. However, why college admissions consider the problem of races? Does race really matter?
Each system should learn from each other's advantages and disadvantages, to find the most suitable for their education system. The American universities’ advantages are obvious as the world's best. Their strengths are that they allow students to have more freedom to find their interests and talents. The first two years in college, American students have enough time to decide their choice of major or change their major. The other advantage is that American universities provide students with actual working skills and experience for the opportunity.
All of these findings are extremely conductive of how mandating school uniforms would greatly improve our student’s ability to improve their school experience. “In addition, with the visual uniformity present across all students, the instance of school pride has increased. Similar to athletic team uniforms, dressing cohesively increase pride, unity, and a renewed commitment to the school. With uniforms, a more professional tone is set in school, encouraging students to take their studies more seriously” (Chen 1). Current interest in investigating the motivational dimension of school environments to guide both policy and applications stems partially from proposals by researchers in the early 1990s suggesting the focus on changing the child
One of many languages American citizens is considering should be included in the United States educational curriculum is Spanish. Spanish is the second most popular language spoken in residents throughout the United States other than English. From the age of five and older accordingly to the United States Census Bureau of 2007 (Shin, 2010) the United States has over 280 million residents and 55 million residents speaks Spanish along with English. This amount is a huge significant amount of people who speaks Spanish when compared to over 300 million plus people living in the United States.
They could also go and learn a new language or tour a different country. “Learning a foreign language is a skill you’ll have for the rest of your life and one that employers find very attractive” (McKay). Taking a gap year will help the students gain many personal skills that they will use in the long run. Did you know that many academic benefits come with taking a gap year? “Gap year students show a clear pattern of having a higher GPA than would otherwise have been predicted, and the positive effect lasts over all four years” (“Data”).
Over the years Eastern Asia has always come out on top for education. In international testing, East Asian countries have repeatedly scored the highest in both math and science. According to the graph in Norris’s essay, “U.S. Students Fare Badly in International Survey of Math Skill,” while more than thirty percent of students in Hong Kong were ranked in the top performance area, only ten percent of Americans were placed there (Norris 162). The staggering differences in scores greatly concerned the United States Department of Education, which led to a spur of reform such as the passing of government programs intent on improving American education around standardized testing.