Alaa Bazuhayr Professor Walden ENGL 1102-017 24 October 2013 Bilingualism In assignment one, we demonstrated four terms figured

world, actor, artifact, and literacy practice. We have picked figured words, observed their actors and artifacts, and included literacy practices other than reading and writing. However, for this assignment I decided to choose a topic related to my figured world showing why I did choose it or why it is important for my figured world to exist. Because I chose English Language Training Institution (ELTI) as a figured world and I observed its actors and their artifacts (physical reactions), for assignment two I chose to discuss learning second language. Precisely, I am going to discuss bilingualism; moreover, why do people choose to learn second language? When is the right time to start learning second languages? Where is the right places or the right environments to learn second language? What are the advantages and disadvantages from learning second languages? Lastly, I am going to discuss how people practice and use the language that they been studying it for awhile, and what are the difficulties from learning second language and being bilingual? Because I am international student and I experienced learning English as a second language at ELTI, I chose to discuss learning second language or bilingualism. As many student I started to learn second language (English) since I was young; however, I was not perfect at this time because there was no professional people that can teach me. Also in school, leaning English was not that important to learn it at that time, although I was pushing myself to learn it because it was my hobby to learn languages and that what helped me to be a bilingual. However, I was taking it more serious later when I became 19 and that because I have decided to study abroad. I went to ELTI to catch up with what I have not learned in school. At ELTI, there were a lot of

Alaa Bazuhayr Professor Walden ENGL 1102-017 14 October 2013 students from all over the world and from my country; however, because students from my country Arabic are their first language it was one of my difficulties to learn English perfectly, because I would not practice it when my environment has those students. So I decided to make foreign friends from other countries to practice and use what I have learned with them. One of the advantages from learning second language is I chose my English to learn about new cutlers and to communicate with different people from all over the world. However, there is one of the disadvantages that I did not like when I started to learn English which is I have started to mix out or miss out my first language, I have started to forget some words and I have start to become weak in some other skills of my first language. After I chose my topic for assignment two, now it is the time to choose my sources that are going to provide me with some information and support my thesis. So for the first source I chose Al-Sheikhs article "Teaching And Learning English As a Second / Foreign Language." I chose this particular as a source because I am going to use it to address one way on how students learn second language. This article explains how students use their mother tongue (their first languages) to learn other languages. Precisely, this article addresses how Arab teachers use their first languages to teach students English or how students use Arabic to learn English. Im not going to focus only in Arabic mother tongue in particular in my paper work; however, I am going to address the use of the first language to learn the second language. Second, I chose Haiwens article "Latino Emergent Bilingual Youth In High Schools: Transacting Strategies For Academic Success." I chose it because it addresses how ESL programs play a role in teaching English as a second language, which I only notice it here in United States schools (elementary schools). So

Alaa Bazuhayr Professor Walden ENGL 1102-017 24 October 2013 this article is going to help me to support my opinion that other countries like my country for example, should have the same things in their schools. My third source is from DeKeysers article "Age Effects In Second Language Learning: Stepping Stones Toward Better Understanding." I chose this article because it is going to help me in how age plies a role in learning languages. I believe that the youngest you are the more efficient you going to learn second language. So I think this article is very supportive for me to my thought. The fourth source I chose it from Hornings article "Theory And Practice First And Second Language Acquisition: Parallels And Differences." This source is talking about how student practice second language. In this article it is mentioned something about grammar practices, which is one of the important base of learning second language. My fifth source is from Irene Thompsons article "Language Learning Difficulty." This article discusses what is the difficulty of learning second language and how to get red of those issues to have a perfect second language. The sixth source is going to be from Lewis, Benny on "How to Practice a Foreign Language for Free without Traveling." Because this article is discussing one of the very better way to study another languages without forcing your self to travail and study this languages from somewhere else. I can use this source to support my idea that people can learn another language without traveling to the second languages original countries. The seventh source is going to be from "Learning A Second Language: When & Why." This article addresses when and why students should lean other languages, when is the right time to learn other languages, and what are the advantages to learn it earlier and what are the disadvantages to learn it late. And why people prefer to learn other languages. Also it addresses the advantages of learning second languages. My eighth source is from Annes article "Why Learn a Foreign Language? Benefits of Bilingualism." This

Alaa Bazuhayr Professor Walden ENGL 1102-017 14 October 2013 article is different than the other because it focuses more in my tropic that I chose which is bilingualism. This article is discussing the benefits of being bilingual. My final one is from Sugunasiri, Suwanda H.J. in "Bilingualism and Second Language Learning." This article is discussing the topic of being bilingual or second language learner. I think there is a different between the terms that the article would discuss. Generally, bilingualism is the ability to speak two languages in most cases; however, in my opinion bilingualism it cannot define by this definition only. Bilingualism it can be more than speaking or writing in two languages. It is right that you should have both of the languages skills to be able to be bilingual but it is not that it. Bilingualism is also by knowing other cultures, religions, or communities that are related to those languages that you would like to be bilingual in. I can say that by learning my languages you should know more about my culture or my religion because some aspects of these things can not be explain without learning its languages. People choose to learn second language for many reasons. First, some people have curiosity about the world. So from this reason I can say people like to learn other languages because they are so curios about them and they would like to know much more about it or they would like to know what it is going on when two people are talking by using another language. Second, It sounds good. Some people like to learn another languages because they are so reverent about it, they like their intonations and how world sounds in their ears, like for example people like to learn France because they think it sounds sophisticated or elegant, and some people like to learn British English because they think they will sound intelligent when they speak with it. Third reason is, According to the article, "Learning A Second Language: When &

Alaa Bazuhayr Professor Walden ENGL 1102-017 24 October 2013 Why." It said that Additional reasons for foreign language study include global economic competition and national security. which I think it means that governments can use learning other languages in war for example to know their enemies plans and movements. And also they use it for business aspects because now many business conferences are held internationally; however, they use one languages in it with translators, but by learning another language business men do not need to have a translators in order to their jobs. Finally, people learn second languages because they want to study abroad or they would like to immigrate to another country so they can communicate with those people in that country. The age can decide wither a person is going to be perfect or not in learning second languages. It been said that the youngest you are the more well you are going to learn another language. The right time or age to start learning second languages is when you are a child. According to "Age Effects In Second Language Learning: Stepping Stones Toward Better Understanding it said that the measurement of event-related potentials, or neuro-imaging to examine the areas of the brain and therefore the kinds of knowledge involved, which means children do not have many events in their brain as adults or in other world their mind are empty at this time so by using this method they are going to focus more in theses two languages. However, environments play a big role in learning second language. When you do not choose the right place to learn another languages it is going to be impossible to be perfect on it. The example of environment that I mean is learning another language in a place that does not provide a right place to practice what you have learned. Also, learning another languages from

Alaa Bazuhayr Professor Walden ENGL 1102-017 14 October 2013 not professional people can lead to big problem because you are going to be used of write or speak by the same way and it is going too hard to get rid of it. Where people start to learn second languages? Usually there are two ways to learn second languages; it can be at schools since they are young at ESL program with the help of native speakers or at their countries with the help of teachers who speak the same language as their students. According to the article "Latino Emergent Bilingual Youth In High Schools: Transacting Strategies For Academic Success." it is said that Recently there has been a plethora of studies that address the failure of U.S. schools in educating Latino students in general I support that thought that if the U.S. schools fail to educate Latino students, that is because if the U.S. schools do not provide the right ESL programs for foreign students they are not going to be successful on their other subjects because English is they key to understand those subjects. However, in another case is when students learn second language from teachers who speak same language. According to "Teaching And Learning English-As-A-Second / Foreign Language Through Mother Tongue." It is fine that students can learn second languages from teachers who speak the same language; however, the problem is when those teachers use their first languages to teach students the second languages which I think it is not professional that is not going to help students for better understanding the first language should not be used in second/foreign language classrooms, since the aim of second language teaching is to approximate near-native competence. what is the advantages? and the disadvantages of being bilingual? the answer is vary from a person to person. there are many advantages of learning second languages, the first advantage

Alaa Bazuhayr Professor Walden ENGL 1102-017 24 October 2013 is when student learn second language it makes their mind more strong; in other words, while students are trying to use both languages the ability of memorizing effect their brain positively because they are going to increase the ability of memorizing and promptitude. Second advantage is, when people some time try to learn second languages that influence then to learn third and forth languages. My third advantage is, people love to know about other cultures and it might be better to know about them by using their languages because that might take off some misconception. However, as I said before there are disadvantages too. One of the disadvantages is, some people misunderstand that learning another languages it means you should get red if your culture, your language, or you identity, and that is going to effect the people around them because they will give a worst image about bilingualism. Finally, when it comes to keep what you have learned this where most students face our problem. So in my opinion the use of what you have learn is the best thing you must do so you do not forget what you have learned as many people say use it or loss it. In conclusion, Learning second language can be for fun but not all the time. Because some people lay on learning second languages on their future for studies or jobs, being bilingual is going to be taking serious at this time. What I mean from that is people expectation can differ from person to person. However, all the expectation lead to literacy practices as I said before it is not only about learning how to write or read in other languages it is also communication between cultures via learning their languages.

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