How can you as a bilingual teacher ensure the educational success of your students?

Strategies for the New Year

Increase ELL students’ English language production and peer interaction.
Explicitly teach English language vocabulary and structures.
Build on ELLs’ Background Knowledge to Increase Comprehension.
Increase ELL Parent Involvement.
Increase Writing Opportunities.

How do you raise a bilingual child?

How to Raise a Bilingual Child: Seven Strategies for Success

Increase language quantity.
Increase language quality.
Enlist the help of family and friends.
Select a strategy that works best for your family.
Consider bilingual education.
Let your child lead the way.
Continue educating yourself about bilingual language development.
Final thoughts.

What are the three types of bilinguals?

There are THREE general types of bilingualism:

Compound bilingual: develope two language systems simultaneously with a single context.
Coordinate bilingual: learn two languages in distinctively separate contexts.
Sub-coordinate bilingual: learn the secondary language by filtering through the mother tongue.

Why is bilingual education a controversial topic?

The primary reason it has become so controversial is that many believe that those who live in the U.S. should be completely “Americanized,” meaning that instruction should be only in English.

Do colleges like bilingual students?

Studies have shown bilingual students perform better in school and tend to be effective problem solvers [source: Center for Applied Linguistics]. Furthermore, numerous studies show a positive correlation between learning a second language and college admissions test scores.

Is it impressive to speak 4 languages?

Only three percent of people around the world can speak over four languages. Less than one percent of people worldwide are proficient in many languages. If someone is fluent in more than five languages, the person is called a polyglot.