Linguistics Professors Help Parents Teach Children Second Languages
January 2, 2008
Knowing more than one language is more important today than ever before. Whether it’s English, Spanish, Korean, or one of the other 6,000 languages of the world, parents are increasingly drawn to the lifelong academic, social, cultural and intellectual advantages that come with learning an additional language. Millions of dollars are spent each year on classes and programs, as well as CDs, DVDs, software programs and educational bilingual toys that promise to help children become bilingual. Yet many of these promises end in disappointment – in part because these products and programs are not based on scientific evidence about how children learn languages.
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