The Importance of Teaching Children Foreign Languages

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Businesses Want to Hire....

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Who Know Multiple Languages

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Without Teaching our Children A Second

Language:Robs Them of Opportunities

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More Languages Are Used Everyday

Children are easier to teach languages

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Personal StoryTook three years of high school Spanish, received A’s each year. Today, can

not recall informationVS.

Younger Sister took Spanish in elementary school. Can still recall

information

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Teaching children more than one language helps:

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-ing skills

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Appreciation

FutureJobs

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Point 1: Point 2:

Point 3:

Helps Children Develop Higher Learning Skills

Promotes Equality and Appreciation

of Culture

Creates Future Job Opportunities

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Helps Children Develop Higher Learning Skills

Point 1:

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Reasearch shows studing a foreign language helps promote and

reinforce core subjects.

-Nea Research, 2007

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Second Languages enrich

and Enhance Cognitive

Development-Nea Research, 2007

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Point 2:Promotes Equality and Appreciation

of Culture

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Studying foreign languages helps

connectWith Cultures and Foreign

Students -Nea Research, 2007

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Helps StudentsLearn about Their

Cultural Heritage and Language

-Chritian, 2004;Nea Research, 2007

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Point 3:

Creates Future Job Opportunities

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Businesses are looking for

Bilingual employees

-IBTimes, 2011

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Translators Needed!

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Spread the Word! Prepare Your Child!

Foreign Language DVD’s

Foreign Language Books

Discuss Educational Foreign Language Program

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Teaching Foreign Languages to Young Children Instead of High School

Helps Children Develop Higher Learning Skills

Promotes Equality and Appreciation among Cultures

Creates Future Job Opportunities

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Without teaching our children another language or cultures, we are robbing them of:

Learning

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Connection

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Opportunity

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Promoting second language education

Prepares Your Child for the Future

ReferencesChristian, D. C. (2004). Language Learning: A Worldwide Perspective. Educational Leadership, 62(4), 24. Retrieved from

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DiProperzio, L. (2012). 6 Foreign Languages Kids Should Learn. Parents.com. Retrieved from http://www.parents.com/toddlers-preschoolers/development/language/best-foreign-language-for-kids-to-learn/?page=2

IBTimes Staff Reporter. (2011, January 22). Foreign language skills provide sharp edge in the job market. IBTimes.com. Retrieved from: http://www.ibtimes.com/foreign-language-skills-provide-sharp-edge-job-market-258085

NEA Reasearch (2007). Regarding World Language Education: The Benefits of Second Language Studies. Retrieved from http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/lib/sde/PDF/Curriculum/Curriculum_Root_Web_Folder/

BenefitsofSecondLanguage.pdf

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