Comments on: Educational success through bilingual education

By: Romeo Paul Rozario

Romeo Paul Rozario — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 08:23:06 +0000

This article is quite fascinating as it demonstrates how bilingual education benefits students’ academic progress, particularly those who are migrants who must simultaneously acquire a new language and new subject material in monolingual classrooms. Despite the advantages of bilingual education, it has been implemented slowly, on a small scale, irregularly, and frequently for political reasons. Reviewing the policies and procedures for bilingual education and adding regular conversations in a second language to the curriculum could both be beneficial.

By: Agatha Emocling

Agatha Emocling — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 10:20:25 +0000

Very insightful article! I think it’s very interesting to see that students from the dual immersion program ‘outperformed’ their peers in monolingual programs—perhaps this strengthens the notion that exposure not only to the language structures but regular use of the target language are key aspects in acquiring and learning an L2. Based on the data presented in Duarte’s study, it might be worthwhile to re-examine the policies and systems that are set in place for bilingual education, in that everyday conversational use of an L2 might become part of the curriculum. Additionally, the insights from this write-up prompted me to reflect on the experiences of my siblings who are migrant (Filipino) students in Ghana, albeit being enrolled in an international school (with peers coming from Europe, South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia). It might be interesting to see how international school systems navigate these gaps in terms of linguistic and cultural backgrounds as most of the international institutions that I know of are rarely attended by members of the host community/country. So, the fact that third-culture kids from various ethnic, national, and cultural backgrounds interact with one another in an international school setting AND interact with the host community’s language and culture simultaneously might be an interesting discussion in terms of the policies that are set in place for bilingual (or perhaps, multilingual) education.

By: Jeremy C.

Jeremy C. — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 04:25:57 +0000

Thank you for this insightful article, Dr. Piller! It really made me realize how crucial bilingual education is since it allows individuals to delve deeper into different cultural backgrounds. Besides learning the languages themselves, it is very important to take note of cultural diversity that should be visible in various learning environments. Bilingual education also provides many different opportunities for students, especially in preparation for whatever career they choose. Based on my experience, I have encountered many people who were not accustomed to using more than one language in their daily lives and it was solely because of the lack of bilingual education when they were still in school. Because of this, they were also lacking in knowledge when it comes to many cultures as well. This goes to show that bilingual education should be further developed and implemented in order to further educate people on a level that is more than just language.

By: Red Kernstin Leongson

Red Kernstin Leongson — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 23:31:25 +0000

I agree that the formation of bilingual education resulted in a positive outcome according to an article. As for me, I really hope that bilingual education should be implemented in my country, the Philippines, as we are a multilingual country. In fact, our country has been practicing Mother Tongue Based-Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) in early education and I’ve seen the pros and cons of that movement such as it has been practiced that the specific Mother Tongue of an area is used to teach lessons for pre-school up to the 3rd-grade. However, there are subjects or lessons which are intended to be taught in English that are in fact being taught in the Mother Tongue and it was difficult as some key concepts or jargon cannot be translated into the language. With this, I want to strongly advocate for the implementation of bilingual education as the formation of English as it was being taught in the early years should also be considered. This is also a great start to being able to practice biliteracy instead of just focusing on one. With the said goals and outcomes in the article, I hope this can also mirror the effect once it can be practiced in my country, the Philippines, as we are also a country where English is used as a second language.

By: Kassandra Salanguit

Kassandra Salanguit — Sun, 13 Mar 2022 12:29:09 +0000

This article gave an in-depth look at how bilingual education can help in the educational success of students. I believe that bilingual education has the ability to spread cultural awareness as students interact with their classmates with different cultural backgrounds. This enables students to explore and understand the language and culture of their classmates as well as to gain a better understanding of what cultural diversity is. With this awareness and understanding of cultural differences inside the classroom, students will be able to effectively form and maintain relationships with individuals from distinct cultural backgrounds. Moreover, I also believe that students can achieve greater heights through bilingual education as it creates opportunities for them.

By: Kiara

Kiara — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 03:08:53 +0000

This article showed a comprehensive discussion on bilingual education. Intercultural communication and diversity can be achieved through bilingual education such as dual immersion programs. The program teaches students academic subjects in two different languages and helps students in developing academic and linguistic competency at the same time. I think that this program is effective because they encourage students to learn a second language, for example, English, and at the same time develop their linguistic skills in their native language. It also helps the student achieve academic success while supporting their culture. Bilingual education enables students to reach their full potential in multilingual and intercultural capabilities by creating school environments that recognize, value, and encourage cultural and linguistic diversity is important. Cultural stereotypes can be avoided and educational opportunities for everyone can be achieved through bilingual education.

By: Kiara

Kiara — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 21:46:15 +0000

This article showed a comprehensive discussion on bilingual education. Intercultural communication and diversity can be achieved through bilingual education such as dual immersion programs. The program teaches students academic subjects in two different languages and helps students in developing academic and linguistic competency at the same time. I think that this program is effective because they encourage students to learn a second language, for example, English, and at the same time develop their linguistic skills in their native language. It also helps the student achieve academic success while supporting their culture. Bilingual education enables students to reach their full potential in multilingual and intercultural capabilities by creating school environments that recognize, value, and encourage cultural and linguistic diversity is important. Cultural stereotypes can also be avoided and educational opportunities for everyone can be achieved through bilingual education.

By: KyKy

KyKy — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 09:55:33 +0000

This dual language approach is based on research showing that many concepts are best learned in the language that the learner understands. This approach would make a significant difference in the lives of children in multicultural communities. All children, irrespective of their location, should have teachers who understand their language and culture and thus can improve their learning. The language a child speaks at home is often a crucial element of personal identity and group attachment

By: Ngoc Hiep Nguyen

Ngoc Hiep Nguyen — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 09:34:49 +0000

This bilingual elementary school project in the Northern German port city of Hamburg is taught bilingually and contrastively with a great focus on linguistic form. It seems to me that this is one methodological element that helps this program be successful. Actually there have been many other bilingual programs being carried out for the migrant students but few achievements have been recorded.
The important reason for success is that the students’ socio-economic background and personal cognitive ability are in control. This greatly contributes to lifting the migrant students’ pressure and allowing them to get rid of the explicit disadvantages vis-à-vis their native-born peers at schools.

By: Xinyue Ji

Xinyue Ji — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:56:31 +0000

The experiment’s result shows that providing bilingual courses can eliminate the educational disadvantages of immigrant students. I believe that this research is valuable and I also think that developing the ability of across culture is important. However, in some countries it also needs a long period to achieve the goal. For instance, like China, due to the national conditions and policies, to a large extent providing a bilingual education is impossible. The twelve educational years is a preparation for a person’s college life.

By: B

Thu, 11 Oct 2018 10:49:09 +0000

This article is very interesting and useful. I think other countries which have many immigrants should use this model to be an example. As teaching bilingual are benefit to both immigrants and natives, they can learn second language by lessons in class and with their peers. Moreover, many migrants are not proficiency in their second language, they are more likely to be joking by the native, todo this it may help deducting the gap between migrants students and native students. In the world now a day, knowing many languages will help students to have more opportunities than knowing just one language.

By: Nidhi

Nidhi — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 02:50:12 +0000

Undoubtedly migrant students can achieve language proficiency with the help of bilingual educational mode. Bilingual learners always get an opportunity to enjoy diverse culture. They not only become creative and intellectual also the chances to get job are higher for them as compare to monolingual person. I have studies through bilingual system and I consider it an advantage since I got a chance to compare nature of different language as similarity and differences.

By: Rain

Rain — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 13:25:20 +0000

12. The fact that students in the bilingual program outperformed their Portuguese-speaking peers in both language and subject contents results that bilingual programs do help migrant children overcome the difficulties in their study in the new country. In Vietnam, there are some certain international schools teaching students in two languages (Vietnamese and another language), too. And it makes me wonder that whether they will outperform their Vietnamese-speaking peers in case these children study abroad in countries where people speak the same language with which they are instructed in at school.

By: Nguyen Thien Duyen Ngo

Nguyen Thien Duyen Ngo — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 07:28:00 +0000

It is impressive and inspiring to know about the success of bilingual teaching. Because the children coming from CALD bakgrounds have more difficulties in their literacies studies due to the sociocultural differences, the language barriers, etc. This is an important step in the development of bilingual children’s development and literacy. Because that children’s literacy learning in their first language is beneficial to their second-language learning.

By: vu

vu — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 13:54:38 +0000

This article has demonstrated how bilingual projects can help migrant young kids to exceed expectations to accomplish high capability level in a dialect. In my stance, I lack experiences as I originate from monologue setting, I have not considered bilingual projects and how these projects can decidedly affect and make positive results for learning kids the language. As I read this article, Hamburg has given one of a kind endeavors to migrant children lastly acquired positive outcomes.

By: tting

tting — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 13:01:27 +0000

Bilingual teaching is a process of teaching students in two languages. Education workers usually combine the mother tongue with the second language according to the requirements of teaching plan and teaching mode and use the mother tongue and second language teaching in different degrees. Bilingual education programs are actually more expensive than English classes. Bilingual education seems to be the most effective way to teach students whose native language is not English. Another option for bilingual education is immersive education – research shows that immersive education isn’t cheap either. When students learn math, science, history, and other skills in a language they don’t understand, content learning is completely lost and meaningless progress is lost.