ENGL 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Multilingualism, Bank Teller, Bilingual Education
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International social activities: then, i will talk about the more demand of bilingual people, ex: police, social worker, human resources specialist, bank teller, Counter argument: it takes more time to teach. It takes more time, but students will successfully achieve skills of learning a different new language and will be able to communicate with others successfully. [continued: it costs more, while it may be true that running bilingual classrooms is expensive, it seems to be the most effective way of teaching limited english proficiency (lep) students. An alternative to bilingual education is immersion, which studies have shown is ineffective. If a student does not understand the language in which materials are being taught, content is completely lost. Lep students not only rely on schools for english language skills but also on math, science, history and other skills: because bilingualism in the united states is often indexed with immigration, the term.