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? Today, in many schools across America, a new learning concept is being tested--bilingual education. This concept allows foreign children to use their native language (or family language) for educational purposes. Some feel this concept can help children to do ....

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.... the nature of intimate life” (225). In his essay, “Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood”, Rodriguez applies many rhetorical features to build an effective essay with a strong point: children should learn a “public” language in school, not only to increase their educational prowess but also to gain acceptance in society. Rodriguez builds ethos by describing his childhood experiences. He talks of the trouble he had speaking English in front of his class (230) and how his teachers at school always said he seemed “so timid and shy” (230). But at home he encountered different experiences; such as a distance from los ....