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A 5 page research paper that investigates the debate over bilingualism. Some people see bilingual education as a necessary mechanism for assimilation, while others view such education, and the multicultural approach that usually accompanies it, as something that blocks assimilation and legitimates differences that could eventually fracture the cohesion of the United States. An examination of literature pertaining to this topic demonstrates that there are persuasive arguments on both sides of this issue. The writer sides with those in favor of bilingual education. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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that usually accompanies it, as something that blocks assimilation and legitimates differences that could eventually fracture the cohesion of the United States. An examination of literature pertaining to this topic
demonstrates that there are persuasive arguments on both sides of this issue. Ethnographer Anna Celia Zentella (1997) conducted a long-term research study that followed the development of five bilingual children
living in New York Citys Spanish Harlem from 1979 to 1993. This exhaustive fourteen year study explored the nature of the childrens bilingualism, how it developed, and how bilingual education
affected the educational development of each child. Basing her concluding arguments on her empirical research, Zentella argues that children in bilingual classes use their knowledge of their first language,
in this case Spanish, to acquire a knowledge of English (1997,p. 275). She argues that having instruction in both languages facilitates English acquisition and this explains why children in bilingual
classes demonstrate higher achievement scores in English than their contemporaries who are in all-English classes (1997). To the objection that bilingual classes present second generation immigrants from acquiring English, Zentellas
research reveals that virtually nothing can prevent the acquisition of English by subsequent generations with an immigrant family. Certainly, this has been the case in the past. There is
the perception that the "melting pot" of American society worked better in previous generations. However, consider this quote concerning a group of immigrants, who are described as "the most stupid
in the nation, few of their children speak English and through their indiscretion or ours, or both, great disorders may one day arise among us" (The mixture, 2000). One might
guess -- from the ongoing debate on immigrant assimilation -- that this quote is recent and pertains to Hispanics; however, the speaker was Benjamin Franklin and he was referring to
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