Category Archives: world languages

another benefit of being bilingual

August 10, 2011 – 5:30 pm

There’s a piece in Newsweek currently on findings concerning cognitive benefits of bilingualism. (Click the image at left for the article on thedailybeast.com. Yes, I know the Arabic is backwards. It should be right-to-left — مرحبا , I think .) The article reports that According to several different studies, command of two or more languages bolsters […]

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“World-class” standards for Florida?

April 27, 2007 – 5:21 pm

thanks to Michael Berson of the University of Southern Florida for this item: http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGBK5AH201F.html The spin on Social Studies is interesting; but there’s a lot more emphasis in this article, at least, on education in World Languages —  for which the rationale appears to be exclusively commercial.

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