FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY: NEED AND ITS IMPORTANCE by Prof Juan Sanchez

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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY: NEED AND ITS IMPORTANCE     by Prof Juan Sanchez

Benefits of learning foreign language: Studies show that learning another language enhances the academic skills of any individual by increasing their abilities in reading, writing, and logical thinking. Studies of bilingual children made by child development scholars and linguists consistently show that these children grasp linguistic concepts such as words having several meanings faster and earlier than their monolingual counterparts. Everyone knows that reading skills are transferable from one language to another, but there are other benefits.

Benefits of foreign language studies: Children in foreign language programs have demonstrated greater cognitive development, creativity, and divergent thinking than monolingual children. Several studies show that people who are competent in more than one language outscore those who are speakers of only one language on tests of verbal and nonverbal intelligence.

Medical Science has discovered that functional plasticity of the human brain is driven by language, and it is beginning to find out that knowing a foreign language can actually change the brain's anatomy by adding gray matter. Dr. Andrea Mechelli is a well-known researcher at the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. Aided by experts from the Fondazione Santa Lucia in Rome, he recently completed research showing that brain density is affected by being bilingual or highly proficient in a second language

We will talk much about the uses of studying foreign languages in next post tomorrow