Education helps immigrants learn English

The Pew Hispanic Center on Thursday has released information confirming that Education Program helps many Latino immigrants learn English fast. In fact, over 90 percent of the Latino’s children who were born in the US speak English very fluently. Immigrants in the United States who took higher learning programs or those that came to the country at their very early age are recorded to be very confident in speaking English although it is only their second language. The report also had it even those Latino immigrants who are in their college degrees spoke English very well too. About 62% of these Latino immigrants were proven to have developed the language when they entered adult education enhancing their speaking ability.

D’Vera Cohn, Pew Research Center senior writer reveals that as the immigrants enter higher level of education the more that their confidence in the English language also develops. Cohn was co-author of the studies conducted by the Pew Research Center. The report was based on actual interviews conducted on 14,000 people from 2002 onwards. The report was made by Cohn when debates on immigration were hitting the airwaves and also created some political debates in the US soil. The research concluded that immigrants are banking on continuing education in order to fully adapt the life in America. As a result of the research many immigrants in the US have realized that learning English first should be their key to effectively immerse into the mainstream of society.

Cohn’s report also revealed that 23% of Latinos in the US speaks good English compared to their US-born children which has only 88% and their third generation with 94 percent. Alicia Carraman, Mexico’s 41-year-old day care teacher said her children are all bilingual. They knew English as well as Spanish at the same time. Higher education learning is also helping boost the fast assimilation of the Hispanics contrary to the old notion they could hardly assimilate to the Americans. Even through online education, the Latinos are learning faster than other immigrants in the US.