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It couldn’t be more surprising on the fact that immersion is one of the conventional yet proven-to-be effective methods in letting learners learn English language effectively. For various reasons and studies, the frequent usage of the target language learned will really push the learners to their limits and allow them to become more familiar with the idiom.
That’s why if a bill would be set in a certain country to which English should be the only language to be spoken there; it would be the most challenging and the best opportunity for an English learner.
But as far as Paul R. Schlitz Jr. is concerned in his article posted in The Baltimore Sun, English only bill is not the best idea at all. There are better ways to help immigrants to learn language, he stressed out on the title of his article.
He seemed to be pretty strong on the first paragraph of his post. As quoted: “I am gratified that the chairman of the Official English movement and proponent of the Anne Arundel County English only bill is not motivated by the same hostility against immigrants that I have seen enacted in Arizona and Alabama and even in some of the xenophobic capers among the Frederick, Carroll and Baltimore County commissioners and council members (“English is the language of success in America,” Feb. 12).”
I believe that some—though not all—but most people have already the knowledge of speaking, listening, and even writing English from average to excellent level. There is no doubt about it. Even countries like Russia or Spain who has their own native language has great population to which most of them are knowledgeable with English. Such fact is not surprising, you know. With the level of influence English language has reached, it is way too impossible for a person to not understand English at all.
But in your own opinion, do you personally think it is really that necessary for a certain country or location to impose an all-English community? Well, considering English to be the universal language, how would you evaluate its gravity?
Your point of view concerning this issue is greatly appreciated especially when you post a comment below. Feel free to share your thoughts.
