This Presentation is about the Importance of Teaching Children Foreign Languages

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2. Businesses Want to Hire....
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Who Know Multiple Languages
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3. Without Teaching our
Children A Second
Language:
Robs Them of Opportunities
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4. More Languages Are Used Everyday
Children are easier to teach languages
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They Can Use Them To Help Change The World
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5. Personal Story
Took three years of high
school Spanish, received
A’s each year. Today, can
not recall information
VS.
Younger Sister took
Spanish in elementary
school. Can still recall
information
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6. Teaching children
more than one
language helps:
Appreciation
-ing skills
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Future
Jobs
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7. Point 1:
Point 2:
Helps Children
Develop Higher
Learning Skills
Promotes Equality
and Appreciation
of Culture
Point 3:
Creates Future Job
Opportunities
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8. Point 1:
Helps Children
Develop Higher
Learning Skills
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9. Reasearch shows
studing a foreign
language helps
promote and
reinforce core
subjects.
-Nea Research, 2007
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10. Second
Languages enrich
and Enhance
Cognitive
Development
-Nea Research, 2007
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11. Point 2:
Promotes Equality
and Appreciation
of Culture
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Studying foreign
languages helps
connect
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With Cultures
and Foreign
Students
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-Nea Research, 2007

13. Helps Students
Learn about Their
Cultural Heritage and
Language
-Chritian, 2004;
Nea Research, 2007
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14. Point 3:
Creates Future Job
Opportunities
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15. Businesses are
looking for
Bilingual
employees
-IBTimes, 2011
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16. Translators Needed!
-IBTimes, 2011
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17. Spread the Word!
Prepare Your Child!
Foreign Language Books
Foreign Language DVD’s
Discuss Educational Foreign Language Program
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18. 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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19. Without teaching our children another language or
cultures, we are robbing them of:
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Connection
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Learning
Opportunity
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20. Promoting second language education
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References
Christian, 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
Prepares Your Child for the Future
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