Quote: Moll explained, "We believe that a meaning-centered model ... allows bilingual students to take full advantage of their first language abilities, and to surpass the limits set by their more limited knowledge of their second language."
Reaction: I liked this quote because I hope to be a hearing impaired and deaf education teacher one day and I think of how hard it would be for a deaf student to be taught only by the spoken language. They would not be able to learn which is why we have to use sign language to help them understand. There are many students in this country who do not speak english as a first language, I don't agree with not using the knowledge that students come to school with. It is important to use anything and everything possible to make our students learn in the best way.
Related Source: "The challenges inherent in preparing students to interact successfully in the twenty-first century make it imperative that foreign language be placed at the center of the curriculum in every school in the nation."
I like this quote because of all the different languages out there I think it is a good thing to know a foreign language. It would only make a teacher that more valuable to work with the students whom english is not their first language.
Foreign language education for all students. (2011). Retrieved from http://www.ncssfl.org/papers/index.php?allstudents
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