Answer to Question #219356 in English for Voni

Question

Argumentative essay: is multilingualism a beneficial to education?

Answer 1

As time goes by and as the global community develops, the world grows more and more international, making second or third language acquisition become necessary to the majority. With the growing importance of multiple language ability, more and more parents think of bilingual or multilingual education, which means acquisitions of two or more languages, for their kids. In fact, we do have many reasons showing why multilingualism is important and beneficial, such as aspects of interpersonal relationship, employment, brain health, and so on. It’s hard to deny that multilinguals tend to make more friends than unilingual people do. The multilingual ability allows people to make not only local friends, but also foreign ones.

For instance, some skeptics think multilingualism create trouble in cultural identity. However, being multilingual is like having multiple identities to a certain extent. It helps learners question and think about who they are, helping them to find out if the “I” is completely decided by accent, speech, , or social habits. In effect, the “I” does not change even when they put on the “identity” of a new language and culture. Cultural identity problem is somewhat scary at first to face, but it is also comforting when knowing the unchanging core and successfully confronting the difficulty.

I truly think that multilingual education will be worthwhile, especially with the critical period to consider, just as mentioned above. People are still able to think if multilingualism fits them while trying multilingual education; yet, once the kids miss the golden period for this, it would be harder to acquire the language fully. Moreover, even though there might be some doubts to think about, multilingualism still seems to do more good than harm. There is no persuasive reason to stay monolingual instead of being multilingual, so I’ll suggest that it is time to embrace multilingualism.