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Bilingual Education side: Nicole and Skyler
English Only: Abbie and Kelly
--Research Bilingual Education and English Only. Identify 3 pros for each, and 3 cons for each.
Bilingual Education Pros:
1. It’s easier for students to learn a second language.
2. It improves a child’s working memory.
3. Sharpens a child’s social skills while promoting diversity and integration.
Bilingual Education Cons:
1. Bilingual education can confuse a student switching back and forth between languages.
2. There is a lack of qualified teachers.
3. The focus will be on learning the language rather than learning the subject matter.
English Only Pros:
1. By being submerged in a classroom where English is the only language that is being
used, students will pick up the language at a quicker pace and leave each day with some
level of improvement. Essentially it is a “swim or drown” scenario because in order to
ask for things and or for help, they need to use English.
2. By using English all day, the students will catch on to real-life English, meaning they
will quickly understand basic everyday greetings, mannerisms, and simple but necessary
questions. These will eventually come very naturally to the student because these sorts of
terms and sayings are presented everyday.

3. The English only approach promotes better engagement because in order for students to
understand the activity taking place, they must concentrate and focus on what is being
said. Along with paying close attention, students are required to share their thoughts,
feelings, and desires in English so they must contemplate and think before speaking in a
discussion. This stimulates thinking and better listening skills.
English Only Cons:
1. Time efficiency can be a problem because you often have to explain things more than
once and give students more time to think and process during activities.
2. May create frustration and resentment in students who struggle to understand. This can
result in a lack of motivation.
3. Students uncomfortable with the English language may participate less.
--Identify 3 key points you will discuss in your opening for Bilingual Education. Briefly describe
why you believe the key points are relevant/appropriate for the debate. Do the same for English
only.
Bilingual Education Opening:
1. Bilingual education makes for a well rounded student, they are able to communicate
better with other students since they are learning a language that the rest of them know.
2. A student who is learning a bilingual education develops a better memory as they are
learning another language their brain is forced to adapt to things that other students
aren’t.
3. If students are learning another language alongside the other language they already know
it makes it easier for them to learn that second language.
English Only Opening:
1. English only classrooms promote an environment where children are forced to be
exposed to the English language constantly and complete each school day with some sort
of improvement. It leads to improved listening skills as well.
2. These classrooms create incredible problem solving growth within students because they
are required to use the English language to ask questions and communicate with their
friends and educators.
3. Lastly, these classrooms are easy to manage because teachers can lead conversations. It
will ultimately create an environment where children are learning English at a quicker
pace and learning through everything they do.
--Create 3 questions the English Only side will ask the Bilingual Education side during the cross
examination. Also vice versa.
Cross Examination of Bilingual:
1. How is a child supposed to string together a bunch of random vocabulary words from
different units in order to create a well developed sentence?
2. Where is the challenge in allowing students to speak their native language while trying
to learn a lesson that is in another language?

3. Doesn’t it take more time for them to learn the new language if they do not have the
opportunity to listen to someone speak it all of the time and have many opportunities to
respond in the language?
Cross Examination of English Only:
1. How is English only considered time efficient when it takes awhile to teach grammar as
it is and the student might not even understand any of what you are saying?
2. How can English only help students make clear sentences with vocabulary learned,
without them being able to understand the teacher?
3. How do you stop students' frustration when they can not understand english only.
--Identify 3 key points you will address in your closing statements for both English Only and
Bilingual Education.
Bilingual Education Closing:
1. Bilingual education offers students more help in the transition from their L1 to L2.
2. Bilingual education helps the student to learn how to make clear grammatical sentences
with english vocabulary they have learned
3. Letting students use their L1’s helps lessen frustration when they are not understanding
English.
English Only Closing:
1. English only should be used in a classroom with bilingual students because it will allow
them to learn English fluently without having the student piece together different
vocabulary they have learned.
2. Using english only will allow the student to learn from exposure to the language.
Similarly to when someone goes to another language speaking country for a period of
time and picks up on the language spoken in the country.
3. Every single day the student will be able to pick up something new from listening to
English only and will be able to make connections to other words and phrases they have
heard being said in the classroom. They will be able to speak clearly and without
confusion because they will be using muscle memory to remember exactly how the
teacher said the phrase or sentence. This can be especially helpful with learning tenses.

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Bilingual Education side: Nicole and Skyler

English Only: Abbie and Kelly

Bilingual Education Pros:

1. It’s easier for students to learn a second language.

2. It improves a child’s working memory.

3. Sharpens a child’s social skills while promoting diversity and integration.

Bilingual Education Cons:

2. There is a lack of qualified teachers.

English Only Pros:

level of improvement. Essentially it is a “swim or drown” scenario because in order to

terms and sayings are presented everyday.

discussion. This stimulates thinking and better listening skills.

English Only Cons:

result in a lack of motivation.

3. Students uncomfortable with the English language may participate less.

Bilingual Education Opening:

it makes it easier for them to learn that second language.

English Only Opening:

1. English only classrooms promote an environment where children are forced to be

of improvement. It leads to improved listening skills as well.

friends and educators.

pace and learning through everything they do.

examination. Also vice versa.

Cross Examination of Bilingual:

different units in order to create a well developed sentence?

to learn a lesson that is in another language?

respond in the language?

Cross Examination of English Only:

without them being able to understand the teacher?

Bilingual Education Closing:

with english vocabulary they have learned

vocabulary they have learned.

time and picks up on the language spoken in the country.

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