Advantages and Reasons of Being Bilingual

Advantages and Reasons of Being BilingualSaunders (1988) states that Fishman, a well-known writer in bilingualistism, declargons that more than half of the worlds population today uses more than one phrase while engaging in activities basic to human needs (Saunders 1988 p.1). Numerous causes contribute to the emergence and handedness of bilingualism. There are various optional or compulsory divisors. Immigration is a major factor of existence bilingual, whereas Immigrants move from one country to an different, because of various reasons. For example, some of them escape from wars or poverty in their countries to search for better life in foreign linguistic communities. As a result, they will be forced to learn the verbiage of the host countries and become bilingual in order to have wider come to opportunities and breakting jobs. According to Saunders (1988), most immigrants speak the vocabulary of the rising culture and environment. In Australia, for instance, 86.3% of immi grants speak their imprimatur terminology more than their home wordings. Geographical proximity of 2 countries is a possible factor of be bilingual, where people of the two communities need the communication among each other for different purposes like trade and other social dealing like marriage resulting in bilingual families. Saunders as well as states that commerce and trade are critical factors motivating people to acquire a second base language. Most economic business and mercenary markets involve bilingual individuals to deal with customers from multicultural areas.2.3.1 Education as a great reason of being bilingualEducation is one of the most fundamental factors pushing or motivating individuals to learn a second language. Being bilingual through education can be optional or obligatory. I notice that, in all Arab Gulf countries, most school students become bilingual due(p) to their adopt of face as a compulsory subject. However, there are some students, includi ng colleges and universities students, who learn their second language English as an optional subject. The acquisition of English in these countries seems to be the result of the international relations between them and the linked Kingdom. It is worth mentioning that the main focus of my research paper is being bilingual due to education.According to Baker (1988), bilingual education refers to any program aiming to teach students a second language besides their mother tongue at school. It takes various classifications based on the following factors. First of all, bilingual education is classified to elitist bilingualism and folk bilingualism according to the incentive of being bilingual. Elitist bilingualism is regarded as a reward offered to certain(prenominal) special individuals by authorities. Some students, for instance, are rewarded by being allowed to study abroad or study in prestigious universities in their countries. On the other hand, folk bilingual education is deeme d a pivotal need people have to meet in order to remain alive. When immigrants move to a new place, they acquire the language of that place so that they can interact with people there. Bilingual education is also categorized into immersion and submersion bilingual education based on the use of both languages in learning. In the immersion education, students are allowed to speak their mother tongue while experiencing their subjects and communicating with teachers. They learn the second language gradually as time goes by. In contrast, students are not allowed to speak their home language in the submersion bilingual education. They are taught all their subjects in their second language. According to the major utilize language, bilingual education can be also categorized into transitional and maintenance or enrichment bilingual educations. Transitional bilingual education essentially aims to develop and make students fluent in one language only, which is the majority language. Therefo re, this bilingual education focuses on the bilinguals first language in the learning procedures with few extra classes to learn the second language. For example, in the USA and Europe, the insignificantity of languages are taken into story and cured in order to make the minority groups to be able to continue the education in English or other majority languages. Huddy and Sears (1984), state that bilingual education is improved in the United States by the Bilingual Educational Act in order to meet the needs of children who speak minor languages (Huddy and Sears 1984). On the other hand, maintenance or enrichment bilingual education aims to teach children their subjects with both languages to guarantee that children get good levels of proficiency in both languages. Baker indicates that some students are taught some subjects such as grammar in their native language, while mathematics is learned in the second language. Consequently, students master both languages, and the two languag es are developed simultaneously. This type of education is used for example in Canada and Wales as Baker shows that English speakers are taught French or Welsh to enable them to be fully bilingual (P, 47). I imitate that maintenance or enrichment bilingual education refers to the same kind of education used in Oman but, here, the government uses the term dual education to refer to it.