Chapter 6 Technology, Digital Media, and Curriculum Integration
Bilingual Education
Children learning English for the first time should not be held accountable for the first couple of years. But shortly after then children should be encouraged to speak and conversate in English more often in school with other classmates and teachers. The more you practice at something the better you become at it because learning another language is not an easy task to learn. LEP children should not be forced to speak in English only but I do believe that the transition will have gradually. Sometimes I think that ( LEP)children are afraid to speak in the English language because of the other children bothering them for speaking with an accent. Children can be very hurtful and cause others to feel bad about themselves because they don't talk of look like the majority. Children can practice the English language by using the Spanish/English CD's or DVD's that have different pictures in English and in Spanish and even have people conversating in English to Spanish and from Spanish to English. I also really think that another child that speaks the same language can help the teacher with a student with (LEP). What's really important due to cultural diversity teachers need to continue to enhance a little something about different cultures. Whether it be vocabulary, or simple every day words for activity of daily living to help make our children of (LEP) transition more comfortably into our classrooms and schools.