Benefits of rigorous language courses
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Studying rigorous language courses provides several benefits. It improves cognitive skills like flexible thinking and intercultural understanding. Proficiency in additional languages can open up career opportunities in fields like teaching, social work, customer service, healthcare, the military and more that require strong language abilities.
Benefits of rigorous language courses
- 1. BENEFITS OF RIGOROUS LANGUAGE COURSES Advanced Placement International Baccalaureate
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Editor's Notes
- Earning college credit in high school means some student will consider going to college who hadn’t. For some students and families the money they save in college credits at High School makes the different for them to be able to afford college
- The college level classes build in a tolerance and habit of rigor that positively impacts drop out rates. Laddings-Billings
- Ivy League colleagues require a minimum of 4 years of world language and prefer more if the school offers it. High density of AP/IB courses on a transcript demonstrates rigor even if students didn’t take the test
- These tests allow students to qualify for the Seal of Biliteracy
- Business highly prefer to hire bilingual workers, even if they are language learners. However, the proficiency level needs to verge on the advanced (int. high) for the proficieny to be functional enough for the business. http://nble.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/ACTFLWorkplaceProficiencyAssess.pdf
- Business highly prefer to hire bilingual workers, even if they are language learners. However, the proficiency level needs to verge on the
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