Bilingualism

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Background At the beginning of the twenty-first century there were some three million children in the United States who were classified as L...

• Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law
• Education

• Bilingualism May Delay Alzheimer's

WASHINGTON - Mastering a second language can pump up your brain in ways that seem to delay getting Alzheimer's disease later on, scientists said Friday. Never learned to habla or parlez? While the new research focuses mostly on the truly long-term bilingual, scientists say even people who tackle a new language later in life stand to gain.

• Charleston Gazette
• February 22, 2011

• A Lesson in Bilingualism

As many as 25 educators visited bilingual classes at Agua Fra Elementary School on Wednesday as part of La Cosecha, a dual- language education conference. Held this week at La Fonda and the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, the 15th annual conference is hosted by Dual Language Education of New Mexico. This year's theme is "Planting the Seeds of Language for the Cultivation of the Mind -- Lo Que Siembra, Cosecha.

• The Santa Fe New Mexican
• November 18, 2010

• Bilingualism in the Job Market

Bilingual individuals are in a unique position to get paid for using their language skills. The growing ethnic population, along with increasing globa...

• Extra; Chicago
• September 08, 2009

• Internships a Go Go

Looking back now on the three-month internship she completed with a bank in Spain, Alba Argueta counts her bilingualism as a blessing. She doesn't know how she would have gotten along in the historic city of Santander, Spain, or at El Banco de Santander, without her Spanish. Her experience is part of a young but growing program John Boyd began two years ago after teaching in the Baylor in Great Britain program. Now director of Career Services, Boyd is making the contacts that will send students abroad to work for years to come. While only a few students so far have worked outside the United States through the program, it has yielded early successes. Developing the relationships that result in internships abroad takes years and years said Boyd.

• Baylor Business Review
• Vol. 21 Nbr. 2, April 2004

• Bilingualism the Voice of the Future

Over a spoonful of oats, I spot the freebie on the front of the Cheerios box. Forget the decoder rings; there's a book inside! I pull out "Tea for Ruby," a children's story written by Sarah Ferguson and illustrated by Robin Glasser (of "Fancy Nancy" fame). It begins, "Estas invitada a tomar te con la Reina el domingo" (You are invited to have tea with the queen on Sunday). Also entitled "Te Para Ruby," this delightful bilingual romp features Ruby as she fancies herself to have tea with the queen.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• December 07, 2009

• Bijuralism A Supreme Court of Canada Justice s Perspective

Introduction II. Legal Education III. Bilingualism III. History IV. Federal Harmonization V. Precedent In Québec VI. Conclusion: Bijuralism And Transnational Commercial Law

• Louisiana Law Review
• Nbr. 62-2, January 2002

• Put Basics Before Bilingualism

The benefits of bilingualism are undisputed. People able to speak more than one language are simply more valuable in the working world than those who can only speak one. And those who speak the hottest languages - English, Spanish, Chinese - are the most valuable by far. For that reason, it's understandable that Los Angeles Unified School District officials are hoping to begin Mandarin Chinese courses in middle and high schools. It's part of an ambitious plan being hatched that would ramp up the availability of the world's hottest language in LAUSD schools with the idea that it would prepare students for competing in a global economy.

• Daily Breeze
• April 07, 2008

• Bilingualism Is Useless Pandering

You are right to castigate Texas officials for requiring school personnel to learn Spanish to deal with immigrant pupils ("Teach parents English," Sept. 13). However, it is not only governments that are sending us down the road of cultural chaos by pandering to immigrants who largely refuse to learn our common tongue. American businesses and corporations are the bigger culprit. From automatic teller machines that force me to choose English, to bilingual phone answering systems, to bilingual signs in retail outlets, from fast-food restaurants to home improvement stores, it is capitalist greed to capture the dollars of a 42-million-strong Hispanic subgroup that will prove most subversive and destructive to our historically English-speaking culture.

• Augusta Chronicle, The
• September 27, 2005

• Letters to the Editor

Avoid political isolation To the editor -- Herman Badillo, who as a Hispanic congressman from New York, led successful efforts to establish bilingual voting and bilingual education in 1974. In his 2006 book, "One Nation, One Standard," he says that those policies "backfired drastically" because "bilingualism and identity politics have produced an ingrained resistance" for Hispanics "to enter the American mainstream.

• Yakima Herald-Republic
• June 15, 2011