Children Valuables as Cultural Interpreters

In the article,” Children Valuables as Cultural Interpreters,” from Find Articles website, the author states that bilingual children can be successful and effective in the society if they improve their skills beside language. To begin with, the author mentions that children who able to speak two languages should be more effective and more useful in the society not just translators. Next, the author discusses the Valdes’ goal, a professor of education. The goal is to focus on the skills of bilinguals and put them in special programs that construct for gifted. On the other hand, the formal education doesn’t have the ability to improve the special skills that bilinguals have. For example, young Latino who speaks more than one language is supposed to be at gifted programs that require more skills and thinking instead of working just as translators. As a result, the real life shows that unsuccessfulness for these bilingual Latinos come from putting them in formal education rather than putting them in gifted programs. However, Valdes was not accurate in his study according to the numbers of young Latino who enrolled at gifted program. Quoting, a researcher, has a research states that Latinos who enroll in the gifted programs count one- half or less than their “prevalence” in the U.S. population. Also, bilingual Latino children are apart of gifted group where the gifted programs reflect an upper-middle-class experience only. Although, Valdes finds the definition of giftedness is appropriate for young talented children and performing children at high levels when compared with other children of their age, Valdes says that the gifted programs should be performed in education methods to be valid for unique gifted children. I agree that children who are very talented such as bilinguals should be attending to gifted programs for two reasons. First, that program will improve their skills to be in a very high level and the other reason is the program will give them more confidence.
First, children are generally smart, so they learn very fast. Gifted program for talented will help them to increase in all skills or at least one skill. For example, many children play sports but few of them are excellent in specific kind of sport like gymnastics, so by enrolling them into gifted program, they will absolutely master in that field. Another example, if some of children are good at math and the program is focusing on that, when they grow up, they will be smarts in math.
In addition, attending a gifted program gives the child more confidence. The child will feel that he or she is very important and unique child. For example, the gifted child tries to choose the challenge game for spending his or her free times while the regular child will chose soft game to fill his or her free times. Furthermore, the child has his or her opportunity to demonstrate his or her ability to do always better in his or her work and that will teach him or her to trust them selves and grow their confidence.
In conclusion, developing skills and getting confidence are very essential for everybody in the world. Adding gifted program in formal education curriculums will be very useful for both children and society. For children, when they grow up, they will get the best jobs because of their skills. For society it is even more useful because it will produce intellectual nation that effective in all fields.


Children valuables as cultural interpreters. (April,2004).Find Articles. Retrieved
November2,2006,from http://www.findarticles.com