The majority of children in the world are bilingual.
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If you’re lucky enough to be able to teach your child several languages, don’t hesitate!
The use of mother tongues as languages of instruction has become popular in many parts of Africa.
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Bilingual education can improve learning outcomes but it’s important to consider local context.
A plurilingual approach means parents celebrate their child’s speech, in whichever language it occurs.
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Increasingly, parents are realising that flexibility is key to navigating multiple languages, and cultures, within family life.
Changing the school instruction language to Mandarin will impact Mongolian children, their families and their communities.
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In Inner Mongolia, China’s new bilingual education policy comes at the expense of Mongolian language and culture.
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The benefits of a bilingual education are huge.
Dual-language instruction can help children grow up to be bilingual.
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Without the opportunity to learn in dual-language programs, children may lose out on growing up to be bilingual.
Under the new curriculum, Welsh will be used in every single lesson, not just language lessons.
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Wales’s schools mostly teach in English at present but its new curriculum will make Welsh language part of every lesson in all schools.
Multilingual students have made steady progress in recent years, new research shows.
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Despite reports that multilingual students’ academic progress has ‘stalled,’ researchers find new reasons to be optimistic about how they are faring in US schools.
Multilingual children.
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Raising children to speak more than one language is a challenge for parents in today’s world. Here are some tips to raise bilingual children.
A teacher from the Arab town of Kabul gives an Arabic class to Israeli schoolchildren.
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We underestimate the power of language to divide and to bring people closer together, scholars say.
Far fewer Americans speak a second language than in most other developed countries – and the problem starts in the classroom.
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Whether it’s due to native language loss or unsupported high school curricula, the lack of bilingualism in the US is notable. Why can’t more Americans speak another language? How should that change?
Indigenous children can benefit greatly from learning in a language they understand.
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Research shows many concepts are best learned in the language that the learner understands.
How do babies learn language?
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Research shows babies begin to learn language sounds before they’re even born. What about babies who hear two languages from birth? Can a baby brain specialize in two languages?