... empowering, because of his positive feelings concerning the benefit of assimilation to American culture and importance of learning English. Rodriguez states in his essay, "Today I hear bilingual educators say that children lose a degree of "individuality- by becoming assimilated into public society. But the bilingualists simplistically scorn the value and necessity of assimilation such assimilation makes possible the achievement of public individuality ... a written work creates a very persuasive and comprehensible argument. Learning "academic discourse- also teaches students to look at...

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