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