2. Maria Estela Brisk says: Bilingual teachers bring added knowledge and teaching and managing strategies that help increasingly multicultural schools. They also provide added language models for schools promoting foreign-language education.
4. • Because the United States welcomes immigrants from all over the world. • Because if The United States wants to remain a world leader we need to learn and know more languages than people in other countries. • Because we live in a country with a variety of cultures and we need to preserve each.
6. • The ability to communicate in two or more languages.
• Being bilingual opens doors to employment and many academic opportunities that otherwise would be impossible.
• Speaking a <span style="font-weight: lighter;">second language allows the speaker knows more than other cultur</span><span style="font-weight: lighter;">es </span> and traditions.
8. Oller and Eilers (2000). The researchers compared 952 students in Dade County, Florida, enrolled in bilingual and English immersion programs. It reported that bilingual children scored higher in English literacy by 2nd grade – a gap that widened significantly by 5th grade.
