Bilingualism has had a bad rap lately. Prop 227, the Unz Initiative, successfully passed removing bilingual education from California schools replacing it with English immersion. For some reason, Americans feel that only one language is necessary and that language is English only. Although the ge...

In the early sixteen hundreds African Americans were being taken from their homeland, African, to be sold as slaves here in the United States. These African Americans, slaves, were separated from their tribes and were not able to communicate with other slaves, or their masters. There were and still ...

Quebec-General information Quebec is an important province of Canada with a population of around 7, 487, 200 according to current statistics. The significance of this province lies both in its size and its interesting rich history. Majority of Quebec population is composed of French speaking p...

Mr. Cummings in his article attempts to put forth the premise that a child's native language and culture are strongly connected. If the native language is not encouraged by the in class teacher the Childs ability to flourish and become successful in current language situation is less likely to ...