nd Ideology.
Bilingualism and Ideology.
The years of secondary school is considered to be a main factor in shaping the journey of teenage student's to build their identity. Through the period of secondary school student's start to build their vision about life and most important their vision about themselves, they start to question "Who am I?" .This question is the beginning step to reach adulthood. In the period of secondary school all the aspects that took a part in the student's life in a younger age, will result in what kind of personality the student will develop , the effect of all the elements in the student's environment shapes their development process, and also it built their own sense of self-awareness and who they are , this self - awareness is defined as " Identity" and many different aspects such as culture, society, education, shares the role in forming a student's identity, but it is important to define and discuss the term " Identity" from a social and educational prospects to have a clear sense about the concept of ' Identity'. It is important to mention that there is no clear or a specific definition of the term 'Identity'. To reach a clear classification of what does 'Identity' means and stands for, it is crucial to focus on the role of all the aspects and elements that shapes and forms what most of people know and identify as their 'Identity' .
Bilingual students faces many challenges and issues in secondary school, wither it is a internal challenge within the educational system that is created by the school policies , or if it is linked to the students social or cultural background . Many researches pointed to a various difficulties and challenges that affects secondary bilingual students and cause an identity struggle, such as , bilingual students' underachievement due to their weak performance in English education, also many researches pointed to literacy issues that can leave a continuance effect on the way student develop their self-esteem , as well as cultural resistance towards accepting foreign languages in some societies .While one of the most important challenges that were discussed is the learning policies that doesn't support language learning , which is considered to be a high profile challenge for bilingual students in secondary school , it could be devastating for many bilingual students to study in an educational institute that doesn't recognize their individuality and background differences , when secondary school years are the most critical period of students life , and many of them rely on education to help them finding the suitable life path for them, but instead they struggle to cope with the school policies, while in the same time they struggle to express themselves within the limits of those policies that don't support their mother language in any means . This type of learning policies force the students to cast away their bilingual abilities and treat their bilinguality, this act leaves the students so confused that many of them could not obtain the kind of identity that their school policy promotes because they believe it does not represent who they truly are. And it makes the school seems like its treating the students bilinguality as an obstacle towards their academicals achievements, which is unfair to the bilingual students and it is an un- neutral act , especially in countries that has a large emigrants population . Therefore the dissertation will consider the learning policies as one of the major aspects to be discussed, regarding to the main role they stand for as the creators of the educational success and the responsibility of promoting a balanced learning system that is able to support all students , and to meet the educational needs of bilingual students to develop in all means academically as students and socially by developing a stable identity .
1.a . Aim
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The principle aim of this dissertation is to uncover the main challenge that is responsible of causing identity issues for secondary students, and how this challenge or difficu