Benefits of learning a foreign language
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BENEFITS OF LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
BY: Mariana Cocha
English Teacher.
*Improve literacy skills
*Improve cognitive skills
Lumosity offers a brain training program
consisting of more than 40 games in the areas of memory, attention, flexibility speed of
processing, and problem solving. This is an online
brain training and neuroscience
* Increase confidence
Reasoner’s model (1982), which comprises security, identity, belonging, purpose and competence main components of self-esteem. Applications of a self-esteem model should be pre-planned in the teaching units and integrated within the foreign language curriculum.
* Native-like accent and pronunciation
* Increase opportunities for university and careers
*Broader worldview
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
*Forming and maintaining cultural connections
Bilingualism offers greater exposure to different cultures and builds bridges between them. Knowledge of different languages entails a treasure of traditional and contemporary sayings, idioms, history, folk stories, music, movies, literature, and poetry of different countries and cultures. An extensive cultural experience also creates greater tolerance, open-mindedness, and appreciation.
*An activity for the whole family