Description

The standard definition for the term bilingualism is “the ability to speak two languages easily and naturally” or “the regular use of two languages in everyday communication.” However, the controversial and the USA’s definition of bilingualism is “the use of another language besides English in public services to accommodate immigrants, including voting ballots, government documents, court proceedings, and education in public schools in the form of bilingual education. Bilingual education is particularly controversial within these services; While there are different forms of bilingual education. Bilingual education is teaching non-English speaking students all school subjects in their native language. Instead of English (not besides English) before they move to mainstream English classes. Bilingual services should not continue because they will reduce the incentive for adult immigrants to learn English. Also, bilingual education is not effective in helping immigrant students learn English.
Since Bilingual Services take place in the United States and after English, the most spoken language in America is Spanish

Thesis:
Bilingual services should not continue because they actually will reduce the incentive for adult immigrants to learn English and bilingual education is not effective in helping immigrant student to learn English.

I. Bilingual Services and Their Effect on the Incentive for Adult Immigrants to Learn English

A: already weak because of large ethnic communities (Leer)

1. – Hispanics in Miami? statics of how large the Hispanic community are.
2. everything does Hispanic need is already there without having to learn English like jobs, renting/housing, hospitals, groceries, restaurants, sometime family and friends are here too!!
3. My experience with Chinatown here in Philadelphia

B: Bilingual services lower the incentive further.
what are the services? Without these bilingual services the immigrants will have some few incentives left.

1. (M. Mujica, Auster)
2. As a result of large ethnic communities & bilingual services + statistics of people who do not know English well in the US. (M. Mujica)

C: opposing view: their arguments are weak because of irrelevant/unconvincing evidence

1. Fallows : his experience in the Japan; strong incentives for children;
2. Maceri: for children

II. Bilingual Education and Its Ineffectiveness in Learning English

A: Bilingual education: Not effective in helping student learning English

1. Definition of BE: teaching in students’ native language
2. Linguistic environments:
   — what kind linguistic environment?
   (native language)
3. Critical period for second language acquisition:
   (wasting gold time for learning a second language).
4. Opposing view:
   Crawford—BE is effective in teaching English (no specific research mentioned) <->Studies (B. Mujica) (M. Mujica) hayakawa
5. Comparison:
   your own experience learning in your native language (like BE) and that of learning in English

• 10 years studying English while I learned much more here in one year .