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Published by Ischool News, July 29, 2015 A new study contradicted an old assumption that bilingualism is a hindrance in education as learning two languages at once would negatively impact learning and language development. Researchers discovered more grey matter in the brains of bilingual people than the average individual, which means they do better on tasks requiring short-term memory, attention, inhibition, or “executive control.” 
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Published by NBC News, June 13, 2015After all, it's my love of words -in both English and Spanish- that has led me to earn a Master's degree from Columbia and establish a career in journalism and communications. It even inspired me to pick up a third language - Italian - in college.
Sometimes, it takes years to come to terms and own our past experiences. I am happy to say I started as an ESL student, and I'm proud of all the languages I know.
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Published by The Independent, May 1, 2015 "Bilinguals get all the perks. Better job prospects, a cognitive boost and even protection against dementia. Now new research shows that they can also view the world in different ways depending on the specific language they are operating in."
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Published by ABC News, February 22,2015 At Connecticut's casinos, the staff can speak to you in nearly any Asian language. At the Mohegan Elementary School, down the road from the Mohegan Sun casino, many of the casino workers' children are preparing for a celebration Wednesday of the Lunar New Year. A dragon parade, with puppets drawn by students in the English-learners program, will march before the student body as Chinese music plays over the loudspeakers. Chinese families account for about 20 percent of the student body, according to educator Lisanne Kaplan, who sees familiar faces among dealers and other workers when she visits the casino.
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Published by New America EdCentral, February 18, 2015 Conventional wisdom in the United States has almost always framed multilingualism as a disadvantage, one that hindered children’s academic and intellectual development and served as an obstacle to cultural assimilation. In 1998, California passed Proposition 227, which imposed wide-reaching restrictions on bilingual education, effectively banning it. Arizona and Massachusetts followed suit soon afterwards. Supporters of these bills insisted that English immersion instruction was the best, quickest way for English learners to learn English and succeed academically. Mainstream media coverage generally tracked the debate at the time and focused on the assumed downsides of diversity—the low achievement and high dropout rates of immigrant children and the additional costs of providing services in other languages.
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Published by Oregonlive.com, February 8, 2015 For the class of 2014, Woodburn accomplished the state's best on-time graduation rate for Latino students, 88 percent, and the second-highest for students who learned English as a second language, 87 percent.
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Published by the Sydney Morning Herald, January 13, 2015 Plenty of research has shown that learning a second language can boost brainpower, but a new study suggests that the effects extend to those who begin in middle childhood.
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Published by the Latin Post, December 8, 2014 Bilingual people are more efficient at higher-level brain functions.
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Published by WeAreOneAmerica, December 21, 2014 So much of the discussion on English language learners in U.S. schools focuses on what they don’t have (for example, academic English) or what they haven’t been able to do (such as graduate in rates comparable to proficient English speakers). These are real problems that deserve our attention.
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Published by Inside Toronto, November 30, 2014 Toronto French Montessori School offers bilingual education for your children. By definition, multilingualism is the use of two or more languages by an individual. With many benefits in the future, there are a lot of advantages to exposing your child to more than one language for them, even during their schooling years.
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Published by Education Week, November 10, 2014 While foreign language requirements have long been a core requirement for high school graduation--second language classes at an earlier age would improve overall fluency for most students.
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Published by the Texas Tribune, October 29, 2014 The Bilingual Advantage: Language, Literacy and the US Labor Market. Trib+Edu: What prompted the book? Callahan: There is this mismatch. We know all this research in one area but at the same time, schools are cutting programs left and right. We thought maybe if the research isn’t convincing, maybe we should look at it from an economic standpoint. We are in the information age, in the era of the Internet. For any local business, their clientele no longer is within a 10- to 15-mile radius. Their clientele is potentially global. Having employees that are bilingual would seem that much more important. We went into this project trying to figure out if things have changed. What we really found was that studies using U.S. census data have a very blunt definition of bilingualism, say, if you speak any other language to any degree, you are bilingual. You are lumping into the same category bilingual, biliterate college graduates and manual laborers who came to this country six months ago. There was no measure of literacy skills. The studies in this book really try to discern who has a level of balanced bilingualism, with literacy in the first and second languages. That is where we saw the huge difference. Once you can measure, you get at what is an advantage really. One of the chapters interviews employers, who showed a clear preference for bilinguals. We are just going to see this preference in the labor market because the client bases have just changed so drastically over the last 10 years. Google has changed how we approach learning entirely. The access to information we now have, and the ability to develop and maintain languages online is so different now. We’ve got this incredible natural resource here. They are more likely to be hired and in the era of layoffs, are less likely to be laid off.
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Published by Multilingual Living, October 20, 2014 Raising bilingual children? Raising multilingual children? Are you bilingual/multilingual? Here is a long list of the benefits of bi/multilingualism!
Dual Language Education of New Mexico's insight:
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Published by the National Journal, July 15, 2014 One in 10 students is classified as English Language Learners (ELLs). Encouraging them to "live in two languages" helps everyone.
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Published by Science Codex, May 12, 2015 Young children who hear more than one language spoken at home become better communicators, a new study from University of Chicago psychologists finds. Effective communication requires the ability to take others' perspectives. ... "Language is social," noted Fan. "Being exposed to multiple languages gives you a very different social experience, which could help children develop more effective communication skills." Liberman added, "Our discovery has important policy implications, for instance it suggests previously unrealized advantages for bilingual education." Some parents seem wary of second-language exposure for their young children, Kinzler commented. Yet, in addition to learning another language, their children might unintentionally be getting intensive training in perspective taking, which could make them better communicators in any language.
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Published by the Press Democrat, April 30, 2015 "Did you know that our world has about 6,500 languages? Sadly, only 20 percent of Americans speak a language other than English, but I think there is a solution to this. Over the past couple years, I have begun to notice that in many schools in the U.S., including mine, students don’t start the process of learning a new language until middle school. It would be extremely beneficial if schools instead thought about putting more money into acquiring bilingual programs for grammar school students."
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Published by the South China Morning Post, February 23, 2015 Learning two or more languages benefits a child's overall academic ability, and may even guard against disease, an expert says.
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Published by FIU News, February 13, 2015 In a globalized, digitized world, new research shows the key to employability and higher earnings hinges on something South Florida residents learned was crucial long ago – being equally fluent in more than one language.
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Published by the Huffington Post, January 30, 2015 The reality is that these parents who sign up their kids for dual-language kindergarten are onto something....
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Published by Herald Scotland, January 16, 2014 Learning a second language can help improve a person's thinking skills, a new study has suggested.
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(Part 3 of 3) Students at Kalamazoo’s El Sol Elementary learn in both English and Spanish. But they don’t use their knowledge just to complete their
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Published by WMUK, December 17, 2014 Students at Kalamazoo’s El Sol Elementary learn in both English and Spanish. But they don’t use their knowledge just to complete their homework. Instead, they find a variety of ways to use their dual-language skills to their social advantage. That’s what a Western Michigan University anthropologist – who’s also an El Sol parent – is finding in her research at the school. In the last of a three-part series, WMUK reports on some of the unexpected benefits of bilingualism.
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Published by the LA Times, December 21, 2014 Many students in Los Angeles, from kindergarten through college, speak a language other than English because they grew up hearing it. They are “heritage speakers,” the children of immigrants who communicate at home in their parents' native language. Yet many of these students have no literacy in the language they speak. And that is a problem.
Sierra_Mcswagger's curator insight,
March 23, 2015 10:22 AM
Many children in the U.S. today are the children of immigrants, so they are typically bilingual with the language they speak at home and, English which they speak at school or when communicating with other English speakers. Unfortunately many of these children struggle with speaking English because its not practiced at home, which affects them later because there literacy is poor. S.S.
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Published by the Huffington Post, November 13, 2014 People who speak two languages may have brains that are more efficient at language processing and other tasks, new research suggests. Scientists have long assumed that the "bilingualism advantage" — the enhanced ability to filter out important information among nonimportant material — stems from how bilingual people process language. The new study confirms that assumption, and goes on to suggest that bilingual people are more efficient at higher-level brain functions such as ignoring other irrelevant information, said Ellen Bialystok, a psychologist at York University in Toronto, who was not involved in the research.
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Published by the Turlock Journal, November 6, 2014 The Turlock Unified School District Professional Development Center was teeming on Tuesday with families and friends of students from TUSD high schools who lined up to receive their Stanislaus County Office of Education’s Seal of Multilingual...
Dennis Swender's curator insight,
November 8, 2014 5:56 AM
The old nomenclature of LEP (Limited English Proficiency) to refer to students who speak more than one language and are learning English may be a misnomer. A more accurate description might be Bilingually Gifted or Bilingually Enriched (BE). "Limited English" may more accurately describe individuals who are proficient in only one language -- English.
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Published by Medical Xpress, October 24, 2014 The special edition includes public commentary from several world experts in the field, including Drs. Ellen Bialystok, Judith Kroll, and David Green, and CRBLM members, Drs. Fred Genesee, Denise Klein, Krista Byers-Heinlein and Natalie Phillips. The authors further the discussion, raising key points about other neural and developmental factors influencing bilingualism, as well as the methodological complexities of evaluating its impact on general cognition. Wallace Lambert began to change the perspective on bilingualism in the nineteen sixties. The commentaries in the special edition on bilingualism suggest that there is much more to learn about its impact on cognition, and that it is time for new paradigms and new ways of understanding this unique human endowment. Given the rich bilingual scene in Montreal, ongoing research conducted by Centre members will undoubtedly shed more light on these questions in the near future.
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