Vulnerable Populations PRESENTED BY ATHENA BREWER POLITICS, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

American Monolingualism and its Impacts on Vulnerable Populations

PRESENTED BY ATHENA BREWER POLITICS, PHILOSOPHY, & ECONOMICS MAJOR ADVISOR: DR. CYNTHIA HOWSON UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, TACOMA

Swap Meets

• Coping Mechanisms
• Interviews at Swap Meets
• 13 interviews
• 66% Most Difficult: Language
• Time, Availability, Pace

D ELICIOUS

Problem?

• More classes! Access!

Flexibility!

• Onus on.. whom?
• Monolingualism
• 60%-75% more than one

language

• United States: 21%

Solutions

• More classes! Access! Flexibility!
• Onus on.. whom?
• Monolingualism
• 60%-75% more than one language
• United States: 21%
• More classes! Access! Flexibility!
• Onus on.. whom?
• Monolingualism
• 60%-75% more than one language
• United States: 21%
• Teach foreign language!

Younger than high school!

• -92% age six: 1 foreign language
• Americans: 20%

How?

• Funding and Policies
• 13,071 total; 298 Washington

Worth the Price

• Current system broken

⚬ Higher $, lower placement

• Professional opportunities
• Educational attainment
• Cognitive abilities
• Health outcomes

Twice as Nice

• Gap in the research here
• For immigrants-
• More welcomed
• More comfortable
• Globalized world
• Come together & speak each other’s language