PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA SEDE IBARRA

SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE LINGUISTICS MASTERY`S PROGRAM

BENEFITS LEARNING A FOREING LANGUAGE

Participant: Mariana Cocha

*Improve literacy skills

Learning is fundamentally metalinguistic. The child must first of all realizethat print represents speech, and then work out the details of how print represents speech.Understanding the mapping between print and speech in a given writing system requires finding outwhat linguistic units are represented by the elements of written language -- whether the marks on thepage represent phonemes, syllables, morphemes, or something else. To profit from literacy instruction,the child must also be able to make sense of metalinguistic terms such as word, (speech) sound, andsyllable.

*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