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Why Study Foreign Language?

Why Study Foreign Language?. Why Choose Spanish as the Language of Study?. Why Study a Foreign Language?. Cognitive (brain function) and Academic Benefits Personal Benefits. Cognitive/ Academic Benefits. Has a positive effect on intellectual growth.

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Why Study Foreign Language?

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  1. Why Study Foreign Language? Why Choose Spanish as the Language of Study?

  2. Why Study a Foreign Language? • Cognitive (brain function) and Academic Benefits • Personal Benefits

  3. Cognitive/ Academic Benefits • Has a positive effect on intellectual growth. • Enriches and enhances mental development. • Leaves students with more flexibility in thinking, greater sensitivity to language, and a better ear for listening. (Source: ACTFL website)

  4. Continued… • Shown to help delay or stop the effects of dementia (alhzeimer’s disease) • Improves understanding of a person’s native language. • Increases job opportunities in many careers where knowing another language is a real asset. (Source: ACTFL website)

  5. Affective (personal) Benefits • Communication • Provides a person the ability to communicate with people s/he would otherwise not have the chance to know. (Source: ACTFL website)

  6. Continued… • Cultural • Opens the door to other cultures and helps a person understand and appreciate people from other countries. • Foreign language study tends to help dissolve misconceptions and stereotypes and often helps to create feelings of empathy for native speakers of the language. (Source: Weatherford)

  7. Continued… • Cultural continued… • The study of another language provides the most effective tool for penetrating the barrier of ethnocentrism (a single best language and culture). • Experience with another culture enables people to achieve a significantly more profound understanding of their own. (Source: Weatherford)

  8. Why Study Spanish? • It is the 4th most widely spoken langauge in the world, after Mandarin Chinese, English, and Hindi, with 400 million speakers worldwide. • Spanish is an official language in 21 different countries. • There are 35-40 million speakers of Spanish in the U.S. and that number is projected to go up to 50 million by the year 2015.

  9. Why Study Spanish? It’s easy! – it is one of the most closely related languages to English (Latin based). It’s fun!

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