User:UrielCruz02/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Language Education in the US

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I chose this article to be evaluated because I wanted to gain a little more knowledge on Language Education in the US since I am a Spanish, education major and wanted to compare on the information I knew and the new information that would be gathered from this article.

Evaluate the article
I think the introductory paragraph is a good start, I like how it talks about language education started as teaching english to immigrants coming to the country and it slowly introduces the various languages that were added through the education system. I think in some places in this paragraph it is overly detailed, or that some details aren’t really necessary to introduce the topic.

The information provided in this relevant in today’s world as there’s a rise to multilingual speakers. One thing that this article does good, is point out both side of a topic, the benefits of language education and the debates of language education. Looking at past edits and sources a lot of the information is recent and/or relevant to the topic of this article.

Reading over the article, it is a neutral article meaning that it does not prefer or standby by one side; but what this article does is present both sides and gives facts from both sides. It explains why people are either against or for schools to teach a foreign language, and separated them into their own category.

This article provides relevant information with sources to back up its facts, what I also like about this article is that it provides external links to other articles where a user may have a problem understanding that information and how it may be related to this article. Going through the reference list, I noticed there were some links that were “Expired” and other links led to some pages where bias was shown such as news articles.

The biggest drawback in this article is that it lacks visual support such as images relevant to the topic. I think the author(s) of this article could have inserted an image of a graph or table with facts that relate to the topic such as the rise of foreign language in education systems

The talk page seems to be pretty active but from looking at it, it looks like the author doesn’t reply back to the suggestions made and I think that’s important to point out. I also like how it points out flaws in the article and gives options on how it can be fixed.