Why Study a language? You become smarter Speaking a foreign language improves the functionality of your brain by challenging it to recognise‚ negotiate meaning‚ and communicate in different language systems. This skill boosts your ability to negotiate meaning in other problem-solving tasks as well. Students who study foreign languages tend to score better on standardised tests than their monolingual peers‚ particularly in the categories of maths‚ reading‚ and vocabulary. You build multitasking
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Being Bilingual The world has become a small village. People from different countries communicate with each other daily. Therefore‚ the need for bilingualism has become urgent for several reasons such as migration‚ having parents who speak a different language or studying in an international school. In fact‚ speaking two languages can help us get better job opportunities and open up our mind.
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The Official Language Movement Ethics 125 August 4‚ 2010 Robert LaMarco Supporting bilingualism in Education Many studies show the positive effects bilingualism has on the education system. One study compared three dissimilar procedures to educating students whose primary language was something other than English. Three different approaches showed different outcomes; structured immersion‚ early-exit transitional bilingual education‚ and late-exit transitional bilingual education‚ the
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The most recent study conducted on the attainment rates between monolingual and bilingual children was Erika Hoff’s observations in childhood concentration‚ which was published in her book “Childhood Bilingualism”. Hoff explained that when a bilingual child learns multiple languages‚ it changes how that child uses their cognitive resources. Furthermore‚ bilingual children often switch their mental dialogue from their native language to their second known language. It is this switching ability according
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Bilingual Education Should english be the dominant language? This is a frequently argued question in the United States although there is large population along with a wide variety of languages. The many languages can‚ in some cases‚ create a barrier which restricts two parties from communicating. With this thought in mind‚ should students be taught another language besides english in school? While some believe that it will be detrimental‚ being bilingual is actually very beneficial and has the ability
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in the speech "The benefits of a bilingual brain”‚ speaker Mia Nacamullitalks about benefits of being bilingual and how it affects our brain. First of all‚ she compares bilingual and monolingual people. He describes language ability‚ which occurs two active part: speaking and writing and two passive part: listening and reading. Likewise‚ he categorizes the bilingual people who occur 3 general type. first‚ he gives an example of Gabrielle‚ who is 2 years old and immigrates the United State.She
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CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND This chapter presents the problem of the researchers sought after the foundation for which to base the study. Introduction "Language is not everything in education‚ but without language‚ everything is nothing in education." (Wolff‚ 2006). The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. The failure of education represents the inability of society to properly perpetuate itself through succeeding generations. Many years ago Filipinos dwell
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Second Year Implementation of MTBMLE In Selected Public And Private Elementary Schools in La Trinidad Benguet Guzman‚ Melvin S. Batay-an‚ Jennifer S. Colingey‚ Rhealyn G. Lim‚ Rolly L. Daluyen‚ Zaldy T. Dackias‚ Ana Leah L. ABSTRACT The study aims to know how the different elementary schools in La Trinidad on the implementation of Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education Program and if the students perform higher on the assessment after the implementation of Mother Tongue Based-Multi
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;.c . rJJ; L. Erlbkrm ‚ /c/ic. - I0 I The Relationship Between Degree of Bilingualism and Cognitive Ability: A Critical Discussion and Some New Longitudinal Data 320 HAKUTA AND DIAZ ! Kenji Hakuta Yale University ! I Rafael M. Diaz University of N e w Mexlco II I ate bilingual saniples to a n extent such that the prototype of subsequent studies o n bilingualism became group comparisons of balanced bilinguals 10 monolingual counterparts matched o n appropriate
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An Argumentation on the Bilingual education and English-only Movement The question of whether the U.S should have an official language and whether bilingual language education can be accepted is highly controversial. Hispanic concentrated areas like California‚ the Southwest and Florida are especially troubled by the proposed English-only movements. People stands for English-only movement claims that linguistic divisions is harmful to political unity‚ while single official language can provide
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