US Immigrants’ Learning English and Mastering Content Goals

Bilingual Education is the teaching of dickens nomenclatures. This would also be the ability to speak two languages. During the 1920s experimenting among various groups of people began. These tests were conducted in poor testing conditions, overcrowded rooms, poor lighting, and large rooms with poor audibility. Many immigrants were categorized as simpletons for receiving zeros on the test because they were unable to speak English, could not read, and were unfamiliar with the Ameri goat culture. The low-test scores confirmed white Anglo Saxon Protestant beliefs that immigrants were inferior.This gave the congressmen more reason to discriminate against the immigrants. In the 1950s, federal and state laws ruled that discriminatory testing was unconstitutional (What To Do About Immigration? p 327). Bilingual education did not originally grow from the pressures of immigration. It was started as a small, federally funded program to help Mexican-American children (largely native-born) i n the Southwest. The purpose was to try to make Mexican-American children fully literate in English. Today, our expectations of bilinguals argon very high. We expect them to escort our language fast and accurately.However, we do not teach them well. Instead of running away from this problem by abolishing bilingual education, we should find a way to remediate this practice in order to make it a part of our culture. People with a native language other than English have two goals in school acquireing English and mastering content. A very big problem is that bilingual education is taught in many different ways in classrooms. Often, students with limited English skills would be taught for no more than a year in special English classes before being moved to mainstream. Some students are pulled out of English as a second language.Others are placed in transitional bilingual education, which is intensive English-instruction. A portion of this class is taught in the native language. Mainte nance or developmental, bilingual education builds the native language while improving English as a second language (http//www. edweek. org/ stage setting/topics/biling. htm). One solution to this problem is finding a one way to teach that will cover all aspects of the English language. After English is effectively taught, the students should be mainstreamed. Some say the curriculum is not the problem, but the poor teaching instead.The teaches want students to be proficient in a second language in one or two years. These days, there is also a shortage of well- qualify bilingual teachers. We can improve this by hiring teachers who are qualified and fully bilingual (http//www. edweek. org/context/topics/biling. htm). If we take a closer look at the educational system, we would notice that bilingual education is not the only guilty party in this stuation. There are many services available in different native languages there is not much of an emphasis to learn English. There are newsp apers, advertising, and even signs that will help immigrants of all cultures.Some people believe that in order to ensure that English is learned the judicature should make English its official language. I believe that people with another native language other than English should learn our language. This is not to say that they can not use their other language, but English should be used in offices and other work places. Today, the amount of bilingual immigrants entering our country is growth year by year. If solutions arent found to the bilingual education problem, I fear what the future may hold for those looking to find new opportunities on American soil. In America, everyone has the right to dream.