Many people have been stereotyped as hoodlums, boat people, illegal alien freeloaders, educationally deprived, etc. because of the language that they use. In many cases, these people are very educated and knowledgeable but because of various backgrounds their English skills are lacking. Some grew up in non-English speaking homes, multi-language homes and some grew up in regions in which the language used by everyone around them was improper.

Because of language skills, citizens have been discounted for job opportunities. Companies that need to fill employment positions requir

Children, just as adults are language challenged. Children learn much of their skills from peers at home. Besides needing to act as an adult on the telephone for their parents, they struggle in school work and testing. The students are expected to think within English terms. Some say that it is fortunate that these students have expanded thinking because of their own languages and cultures. But when the children test their skills in English, their test scores are hindered by this expanded knowledge. Such as what happened to Amy Tan. When she was given a test regarding word analogies, Amy was to choose a word from a given list. The word that she chose should have illustrated a relationship to the first given word. For example, “red is to stoplight, bus is to arrival, chill is to fever, yawn is to boring.” (156) Since she was nurtured in a bilingual home, Amy found that these questions were not as easy as they should have been. The culture and language that she grew up using was very expressive and Amy found it difficult to find the correct words the tests were looking for.

People that are language challenged b

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