Topic: Bilingualism: Is bilingualism good? How to best raise bilingual children? What might be any disadvantages of bilingualism?
Synthesis Letter:
Dear Professor,
Throughout the reaching for sources for my reflected annotated bibliography entries. I found many sources that are useful, where I pick the ones that’s more convincing and revialiable to use as my entries. Even though the authors are writing their ideas in their own perspective and some ideas are very one sided, all the entries are connected someway that gives a main idea that it is importance to understand bilingual and bilingual education, it has both advantages and disadvantages for bilinguals. And knowing them will help a person to understand the advantage he has and knowing which parts he should work harder to improve himself.
Diaz (1983) and Bhattacharjee (2012) both demonstrates the good side for being bilingual by arguing bilinguals are more advantage in cognitive skills. Both authors justify their perspective by demonstrating persuasive evidence such as experiment done by Albert Costa, a researcher at the University of Pompeu Fabra in Spain. On the other hand, Ouzia & Folke (2018) illustrations the down side for being bilingual and argues that there is a limit for bilinguals and conducts a research himself to maintain hi argument. In addition, Hu (2008) demonstrates the different types of bilingual education that there are strong and weak ones. Where he claims that heritage language bilingual education is a strong form of bilingual education, according to Baker (2006). Hu (2008) also claims that the Chine-English language bilingual education is a weak form of bilingual education and its misleading the education in China. Also, Bialystok (2009) gives a clear examples of the advantages and disadvantages for bilinguals in his research paper. He is the only author in my entry that don’t take a side on whether bilingual i good or bad. Instead, he demonstrated a clear database of information on the pros and cons for bilinguals.
I believe that the information I learned will surely help me to address the problem of my topic. Now that I have more knowledge in bilingual education about the pros and cons to it from studies and experiments, this will help me to be better and clearer in explaining and showing the topic to my audience. I believe the best way to achieve my purpose for audiences to thank me is to make my entries clear, easy to understand, and straight to the point. By doing so , I tried to avoid using words directly from the article, and use words that’s easier for audiences to understand.
The knowledge I learned will create a ‘conversation’ about the problem I investigated and will fill gaps in the knowledge about the problem because the knowledge has different perspectives and interpretations about the topic. Thus, I have to combine all the information together and form a new interpretation, which will also be different from any of the author. This is only because everyone thinks things differently and will create ‘conversation’ about the problem on a certain topic.
Sincerely,
Student