Different Languages

Data

I have collected data from students here at DHS who are in my Language Arts class. I have learned a lot about language from the students I talked to. I personally think that if you know a different language you learned differently from other people who only speak one language. I have also learned that most of the people who speak more than one language, learned the all the languages when they were little or as they were growing up. Most people learned the language's they speak from either there parents/guardians, or their teachers.

Primary Research

I will collect my data by going around to at least three students in my language arts class that speak a different language. Then I will ask them to take my survey and I will collect the data off my survey papers.

Interview

1. How many languages do you speak?

2. When did you learn to speak those languages?

3. Do people in your family speak those languages?

4. Which language do you prefer to speak?

5. Was it hard to start speaking english when you started school?

6. Do you know how to write in the other languages?

7. What language is easiest to write in?

8. What language do you prefer to write in?

Secondary Research

My secondary research was about a child who spoke a different language than his teacher and a different language than his classmates. So when the teacher was speaking he would just stare off into space and just imagine stuff in his head, but in the end his teacher helped him out and he wasn't afraid to speak in front of other people.

My research plan

I am going to talk to students here at DHS and I am going to record the different languages. I am going to research what languages I think are spoken here at DHS. I am also going to research the languages of Kenya.

My research questions

What are the different languages spoken in DHS by students?

I would like to know this because I think it is interesting having a high school filled with students who speak different languages.

Goals For My Research

I would like to research about the different languages spoken here at DHS. I would also like to research about our students here at DHS, if they get picked on about the way they speak because it's different.

My Language Beliefs

I believe that everyone speaks their own language, and/or their own dialects. I also believe that you shouldn't pick on someone because they speak differently than you or differently than how the people around you are speaking. I believe that when you speak to someone, or when you are having a conversation with someone who speaks a different language, or dialect than you that you learn more about not only the person, but more about the language they are speaking. I believe this because I have spoken to people with different dialects, and I really have learned more about them, and I've learned more about their dialect/language.