Bilingual_Education

Bilingual Education It is quite unfortunate that the unfounded misconception concerning the malnotions of bilingual education exists in the United States today. With such prominent, supporting research to maintain the benefits of immersion programs in our nation's elementary schools, its amazing that more of these schools do not exist. Countless studies have proven that children taking part in immersion programs have an advantage over children that do not; one that can push them ahead of their peers, not only in secondary school, but in their college career as well. In order for our nation's children to compete academically with one another, especially when applying to colleges, its vital that they have the same opportunities. Its necessary that immersion programs are offered in all parts of the United States so the benefits and advantages can be enjoyed by all. Studies show that bilingual high school and college students are academically superior to their monolingual counterparts (Carter 202). Dr. B. McLaughlin, one of the leading researchers of bilingual children concluded in his 1978 study, "The bilingual child has a sense of prestige and accomplishment a monolingual child lacks. Knowledge of an additional language stimulates educational efforts in general." (qtd. bilingual, children, language, programs, immersion, education, schools, proven, foreign, united, students, states, one, nation's, school, research, monolingual, higher, benefits, years, study, scores, mental, elementary, development, another, while, test, place, over, opportunity, offered, grade, exist, diversified, compete, college, child's, child, between, already, academically, able, youth, year, teaching, system, superior, studies, studied