benefits learning a foreing language
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PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA SEDE IBARRA
SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE LINGUISTICS MASTERY`S PROGRAM
BENEFITS LEARNING A FOREING LANGUAGE
Participant: Mariana Cocha
*Improve literacy skills
Learning is fundamentally metalinguistic. The child must first of all realizethat print represents speech, and then work out the details of how print represents speech.Understanding the mapping between print and speech in a given writing system requires finding outwhat linguistic units are represented by the elements of written language -- whether the marks on thepage represent phonemes, syllables, morphemes, or something else. To profit from literacy instruction,the child must also be able to make sense of metalinguistic terms such as word, (speech) sound, andsyllable.
*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