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I mean I think in a perfect world sure, all teachers I mean in a perfect world sure, all teachers would be bilingual or know multiple languages. That being said, I don't think making it a requirement is smart unless the education department is ready to pay teachers to learn 2nd and 3rd languages. Especially during a teacher shortage
Q- What do you call a person that speaks two languages?
A- Bilingual.
Q- What do you call a person that speaks three languages?
A- Trilingual.
Q- What do you call a person that speaks only one language?
A- An American.
I don’t know the answer to your question, but I definitely think we can all do better.
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🤔 Can’t get enough teachers, let’s make it harder! That will work! 🤦🏻♀️
And EL and ELA are neither the same thing nor the same major. Maybe if the proposal was that all EL teachers know a second language, that might help… but EL teachers can have 12 languages in a class of 15, I don’t know that a second language would make that much of a difference. 🤷🏻♀️
No
The state of Texas required every ELA teacher to get ESL/ELL certified, so that we would have strategies when kids are scheduled into our classes. We do the best we can.
Meanwhile our busy ESL/ELL teacher has multiple languages represented in her classes: Spanish, Korean, Mandarin, Vietnamese, Russian, Farsi, Urdu, Turkish, Hindi, Arabic, and Hebrew. It is the United Nations! There’s no way that we will ever find bilingual teachers for that many different languages. Our kids seem to learn BICS quickly, even if they only speak their native language at home. They need supports with CALP because many take AP classes and the vocabulary is very advanced. As long as they come to school, they do well even without having bilingual ESL and ELA teachers. If there is a problem, it’s generally because they were not literate in their home language or they have attendance or possible learning disabilities.
ESL teachers? Yes. ELA teachers? No! Of course, if my salary is doubled, it’d be worth my while because this sounds like a ploy by school systems to reduce staffing and increase teacher responsibilities. 🤫
No, since it's not attainable. In what language? I'm gonna guess there are places where Spanish isn't the main language. Being bilingual also doesn't mean the teacher will know best practices about teacher ELLs. That's what is important. And btw, I'm Spanish bilingual.
What was the premise and why English specifically?
That’s what ESL programs are for. Perhaps the person who suggested that just means that ELL students need more support in Language Arts classes.
I’m a Bilingual English Teacher. Actually English English from Manchester in the UK. Spanish is my second language with a C2 level. Helps a great deal explaining the Grammar side of English. Being able to understand how Spanish is constructed gives me, at least, that advantage. Actually, giving teacher training in the Canary Islands and having a whale of a time. (Pasándomelo en Grande!!! )
It would be helpful as far as teaching students grammar. Most of us can't teach grammar very effectively because we don't learn it. Not like you learn grammar when it's your second language. We learn the grammar "rules" through immersion. But then we are kind of half-assing it a lot of the time. When you learn a different language, you learn the grammar as you are learning the vocabulary and you learn it very methodically.
Otherwise- I would say no. The only people that really even need grammar that much are editors. And as far as I'm concerned- they can learn it in college.