Bilingualism

While doing my homework last night. I began to think how crazy it is that schools are against bilingualism in their classroom. It makes me wonder what the big deal is about that. While finding that yes, it can be costly, I sure do not agree with schools, especially California, being against it. Why exactly? It makes me question because we live in a society today, where jobs are in demand for people and the requirements needed to work are rising. I would not be surprised if in five years it is required to speak a second language. Looking back into our society when we were younger, of course it was easy to get a job right out of high school for our parents. Today, it is extremely rare to even make a steady income with just a high school degree. Requirements are getting stricter and stricter. Emphasizing college for a well paid job. I can see in the future some places requiring a minor in a second language. Also, while watching a video about a class in London, being taught English as a second language was extremely interesting. Listening to these 3rd graders discuss how learning English as a second language has been a fun experience was just awesome. The video showed the approaches that the teacher took when teaching grammar. A lot having to do with matching expressions with words, which I thought was pretty cool. I, in all honesty, never have thought of how children acquire English as a second language before. It was pretty cool to see that my everyday language is being taught in countries across the globe. If you think about it also, there are many ways in which the English language would be tough to comprehend if you are just being taught it. Things like "ough" in through or tough are pronounced completely different that each other yet are spelled the same. It is so crazy how many words we have like that today. It is very impressive for such a young aged child to learn that and pick it up. The English language is so great yet so complicating!