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Benefits of Foreign Language Education for Young
Children
DID YOU KNOW THAT…
- Infants and young children have an innate capacity to
learn the base structure of a foreign language.
-The ability to learn a foreign language decreases
rapidly beginning at one year.
-Both music and foreign language positively affect your
child's spatial and temporal reasoning.
-Only "live" language not television, computer or video
produces vocabulary and syntax boosting effects.
-Learning a foreign language has a positive effect on
your child's emotional, intellectual development as well
as instilling confidence and increasing self- esteem.
-Kinderlingua has distinguished itself as a leader in
the area of foreign language instruction and language arts
for young children.
-Students exposed to foreign languages in the
elementary and preschool years have a much higher rate of
success in other studies.
* Source: Newsweek, Feb. 19, 1996, "Your Child's Brain" |
