Cover Letter

For the last assignment I have choose to explore my views on Multilingualism, and Bilingualism, and overall how helpful it is for a person, in work culture or real life scenario.

Researched Essay

Why being bilingual or multilingual is important

               Language is a very important aspect in life, because it creates an identity.

Identity is something that is not fixed, it changes the depiction of the person’s personality, since all human beings are not the same. Language plays an enormous role when formatting the human identity. Overall the whole world is becoming interconnected, and the ability to connect with people over the world has become more vital, cognitive development, understanding of the culture, and professional growth helps if being multilingual or bilingual.

A person is considered bilingual when he/she knows to speak two languages, and multilingual when more than two languages (17), I am both. Growing up in Bangladesh, the mother tongue Bengali was what I was born with fluency, but overtime watching hindi shows on Tv, and on the internet, helped shape my Hindi alot, and gradually English when I immigrated to the United States. Being multilingual or bilingual improves cognitive function, research has shown that it can enhance the brain’s ability to memorize, process, and concrete information. Since a bilingual or multilingual brain requires switching between languages it gives enough flexibility to be more creative and open minded with problem solving situations.

Research has shown that multilingualism or bilingualism can enhance cultural identities for individuals exposed in different cultures.

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They tend to familiarize themselves with deeper appreciation for diversity. And it gives people the experience and makes it easy to get along with other cultures. Since the understanding of cultural differences is the key to success, cultural studies is beneficial in international studies.

Professional opportunities is another major advantage, because it can create links to work places, and beyond. Majority international companies in today’s world require employees that can speak more than one or two languages, making them bilingual or multilingual. 

Research from the Economic forum or benefits of being bilingual or multilingual has shown https://blog.virtualwritingtutor.com/the-economic-advantages-of-bilingualism/ that graduates from Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and mathematics program after graduation gets jobs late, compare to graduates in modern language, because their career is based on communication skills, and having a wider range of industry helps them to employable to multiple sectors of economy. Also, research has shown that monolingual people with a higher IQ get paid less than bilingual or monolingual people, because of diversified communication skills. In general, bilingual people in Europe make on average, 37% more than the monolingual people or the co workers.

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The United States for example is parallel to the word diversity, because your surrounding all together is diversified with people from all over the world, so for that reason bilingual children are demonstrated the ability to solve problems containing conflicting or misleading information at an early stage, and have an enhanced ability to switch criteria during given tasks. Another research from the cognitive effects https://idp.springer.com/authorize/casa?redirect_uri=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11126-017-9532-9&casa_token=3yUNFMOZElUAAAAA:xopLLUdRXOMXJEKdmR823eNyPkUJgYnROHCvyy51yV-7B_bQr244uaGUZ1nD7kElrvtmAxxxFf5XihKf

shows that the statistics behind memory tasking between bilingual and monolingual participants having a greater tasking ability for a bilingual is common according to the research than any monolingual.

Cover Letter

Again my topic tells the reader the whole story, I used Amy Tan’s Essay as a example, and to set the whole scenario with her experience.

Rhetorical Analysis

In the essay “ Mother’s Tongue” by Amy Tan, the merits and demerits arising due to the lack of the author’s mother’s language were described thoroughly, and how her mother finds it hard to speak standard English. Since she is from China, and her Mother language is Chinese/Mandarin, it’s hard to deal with a second language or to an extent learn a second language at that age.

The author’s use of pathos to convey the audience with emotion was vividly put out. Along with pathos other rhetorical devices such as anecdotes, and oxymoron was also shown, for example when her mother was having issues to explain the stockbroker on how she thinks she was getting scammed with the money, and yelled at the stockbroker with ‘Broken English’ Tan felt guilty. Later she acted to be her mother and called that stockbroker to get the perfect help her mother wants, which shows anecdotes in those examples for the audience.

Moreover with oxymoron, anecdotes, and pathos other literary devices used were logos, and ethos, to completely tell the reader that limitations in speaking a language doesn’t mean that the same person will face other limitations in life in general.

Furthermore, the take away from Tan’s essay for the audience is that someone who can’t speak proper English doesn’t mean they are less intelligent than someone who is born in a country whose first language is English. Tan’s mother was judged and disrespected only because of the way she speaks English. 

Cover Letter

My audience are people who can speak more than one language, in other words Bilingual or Multilingual. My theme focuses on personal things I had experienced in life.

Literacy Narrative

                   “Students welcome to the first day of high school classes, I would like everyone to introduce themselves” this was asked by my teacher on the very first day of classes, my first “American High-School” experience was full of emotions, and sentiment, because who gets mocked at their accent? I did, for all the folks that were sitting in that class, I guess my accent was their problem, and it was. Growing up in Bangladesh, and then immigrating to the U.S. I was privileged that I went to an English-Medium school (ESL), and at least learned the basics, though I was not able to catch the accent.

English is the most spoken language in the world, I was seven years old when I first learned it in Bangladesh, and my parents forced me to get enrolled in an ESL school, Eventually, they knew that someday they will move to the U.S.A and would be a good head start for me to get along, and that was true I have seen a lot of people in the U.S not being able to speak basic English, but I was privileged. I spent up to 8th grade in that ESL school in Bangladesh.

Eventually, my family moved to the United States Of America when I was fourteen years old, it was mid-August when my journey to get enrolled in a High School started. Since I was an immigrant international student, who didn’t go to any school in America, I had to give an English Proficiency Test. When I first heard it I was like “what is proficiency means” by that quote of mine you can surely understand how bad my grammar is. After a couple of days, it was my test, the way the test was structured was a short writing section, a math section, and a reading with multiple choice questions, I nailed the math section because it was simple math and easy, but I failed the writing part, that’s when I realized the basic English that I learned was not appealing to the actual thing that needs to be learned, due to it was poor English, not even close to the standard. My mother tongue is Bengali, and shifting it to proper English was tough for me. The school did put me in their student slot, but I had to pass that proficiency test somewhere in the future.

After attending numerous after-school sessions for English classes, learning outside of the academic circle to learning in a creative way such as watching English movies with subtitles, and listening to different English songs, I Eventually, led to pass my test, after some realization, I begin to think how this whole story made a marvel fan and an Ed Sheeran fan. 

I enjoy reading over writing or speaking, but that doesn’t mean I don’t know how to, I do know, but the fear that works on me while someone tells me to speak or write is just unexplainable. Coming from a country where English is the 2nd language, and transitioning to a 1st language English country was hard, because projecting my voice to people, and subconsciously thinking what if they mock my accent or the way I speak killed me every time.

Gradually passing with good grades in high school, there was a time when they put every student into AP courses, which was a very hard English course, which everyone hated, so did I, Because it took a lot of time/reading to complete every day around 15-20 pages of reading was frustrating, can’t even drop from that class because it was mandatory. Slowly slowly, after getting used to it I tend to realize my English was improving with all the different vocabulary I am encountering in everyday reading was helping me shape my reading or speaking ability, from Jane Eyre, the Great Gatsby, Kite runner, Shakespeare, to Macbeth I read all those famous books from top seller writers. I don’t know what would have happened if I didn’t encounter AP literature in junior year. Now I can tell I enjoy reading and speaking, but the writing part for me needs improvement. Who knows which subject in life will help it? 

Throughout my experience with learning English, I found out that reading can open much more of a gateway of imagination than anything else, with overtime encountering different unique vocabularies, and expressing it in my daily life excluded me from the crowd, and I emerged myself in a very different view for other people.