Myth 3. Once students speak English, they are qualified reach the academic success.
The schools are great opportunities for social and cultural contact for new students. The school becomes the primary agent of socialization and shaping the social identity of children and young students. The learning process is directly related to social, cultural, religious, and urban settings among many others, and try to take them out of the contex could be harmful and have negative consequences for them.
Fisrt, you learn from a social context. Then, it social context (migration, segregation, insecurity, poverty, etc.) affects and influences the learning process. There is a notable difference between the social language used among children and youth (to…show more content… Simply because they can talk on cafeterias, hallways, the patio, with peers and using an every day English, that doesn't means their academic language is progressing at the same pace than their social English. They are acquiring social English for instance they aren't yet capable to sucees in a standarized program. They still have the lack of the academic vocabulary needed to developing the content knowledge needed in English to succeed.
These students give the impression of dominating appropriately conversational English for daily communication with family, friends and classmates; but still they have difficulty with academic proficiency. This is due to or what they say and hear on the street, with friends, at home does not support the language you hear or read in areas such as reading, writing, spelling, science, social studies and other subjects. Instead of placing the student ESL / ELA / ELL backs to the wall, placing them within a social and educational context for which are still not ready, we must recognize and identify these two kinds of language proficiency, in order to provide a fair and quality academic
