........................ Class & section: Grade: 8 A/B Duration: Why-Learn-A-Foreign-Language 1. Why is learning a foreign language important? Read the quotes about learning languages. Choose 2 of them you like best‚ and comment on them: 2. A) why do people usually learn foreign languages? Think of as many reasons as possible. B) Read the text to find some more ideas. Fill in the gaps
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Mandatory Foreign Language Classes To communicate with others in another language is crucial‚ especially with our ever-changing society. The amount of immigration is increasing immensely nevertheless; the job market is becoming more competitive. As citizens of the United States‚ we need to be able to efficiently communicate with international clients‚ and to do so‚ another language should be required. The problem is most Americans don’t know a second language‚ consequently this negatively affects
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learn a foreign language In this world‚ there are many type of language exist. Some of them exist since the ancient history such as Mandarin and Arabic. However‚ plenty of them was formed by the evolvement of other language. For example‚ Korean and Japanese languages exist from the evolvement of Mandarin Language. Other than that‚ Malay language exist from the evolvement of Arabic language and all them still been used until now on. Moreover‚ today life needs us to learn the foreign language for the
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Georgiy Sichinava Peter Starr Writing 115 10/11/2012 The challenges in learning foreign language The case of being a foreigner while improving your skills is very common in the contemporary society. A lot more people are crossing the border of the home country either to advance their language skills or to get a better education in a certain sphere. Being the part of this reality‚ I recently moved to the United States to earn a degree. Thus the situation shown in the David Sedaris’
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Kindergarten and Piaget Child Development Instructor: Jaclyn Scott December 17‚ 2013 As a preschool teacher‚ I am responsible for ensuring that I provide my students with engaging experiences through discovery learning as well as making sure that I am supporting the interests of the children in the classroom. Using Piaget ’s Stage theories‚ children cannot do certain tasks until they are psychologically mature enough to do so and was believed that children
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Americans Should Learn a Foreign Language Steve Fidel once has written‚ “A person who speaks three languages is trilingual; a person who speaks two languages is bilingual; a person who speaks one language is — American.” In spite of the fact‚ that English language one of widely widespread in the world‚ it should not use that as an excuse for native born residents of the United States to avoid studying another language. There is a set of arguments why it is necessary to study foreign languages
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different language than our native one‚ taking myself as an example I realized that I have never really taken any time to analyze just how important it is‚ and so I came up with a very important question ‚how can learning a foreign language benefit you? Well first of all‚ languages‚ what is language? we can establish that language is the systematic use of sounds or symbols in order to communicate with other people‚ so one of the most important reasons to study and learn a second language is obviously
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learning foreign language Language is systemic sounds or symbol in order to communicate with other people. In a world that increasingly interdependent‚ we can no longer afford to remain monolingual. Success depends in large measure on ability of an individual to function as members of global village whose members speak a variety of foreign language. Learning language is no longer past time but it is necessity. Learning more than one language is benefits to us because learning foreign languages can
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ENG108: Writing Project #4 22 April 2012 Why Foreign Language Should be a Core Subject in Public Elementary School The benefits of learning a foreign language go beyond learning a different culture or being able to communicate with people of different backgrounds. It is essential that Americans speak languages other than English in order to compete internationally‚ keep the country safe‚ and prepare children to be world citizens. Several language organizations‚ educators‚ and policy makers have
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of Learning a Foreign Language With the development of society and economy‚ languages become more and more essential in our life. So learning a foreign language is a good way to communicate people who are from different culture backgrounds. Well first of all‚ languages‚ what is language? We can establish that language is the systematic use of sounds or symbols in order to communicate with other people‚ so one of the most important reasons to study and learn a second language is obviously because
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