A good time to learn a foreign language

1. EVER TRIED LEARNING A
FOREIGN LANGUAGE?

2. For a college degree…

3. Advancement in career…

4. Visiting a foreign country…

5. ARE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
DOING ENOUGH TO
TEACH IT?

6. Most students in the United
States don't learn a foreign
language until 9th grade

7. Requirements for graduating
high school are left up to each
state and some states do not
require a foreign language.

8. According to Forbes,
foreign language
instruction in public
elementary schools
decreased from 24% to 15%
between '97-2008. And 75%
to 58% for middle school.

9. Are we doing enough to keep
up with the global economy?

10. “To prosper economically and to
improve relations with other countries,”
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
declared in 2010, “Americans need to
read, speak and understand other
languages.” Unfortunately, Duncan
pointed out, only 18% of Americans report
speaking a language other than English,
while 53% of Europeans (and increasing
numbers in other parts of the world) can
converse in a second language.”

11. WHAT DOES RESEARCH
TELL US?

12. • MRI scanning shows children use
deep motor area of the brain
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/sep/04/what-happens-to-the-brain-language-learning

13. • Children use nonconscious
part of the brain

14. • Increased cognitive skills and
higher test scores

15. • Prolongs Alzheimer’s
and onset of dementia

16. WONDER WHY WOULD I
SPEND TIME ON THIS
SUBJECT?

19. https://www.forbes.com/sites/collegeprose/2012/08/27/americas-foreign-
language-deficit/#687661124ddc
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/sep/04/what-happens-to-the-
brain-language-learning
http://ecs.force.com/mbdata/mbprofall?Rep=HS01
http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2009/05/learning-second-language-good-
childhood-mind-medicine
https://www.districtadministration.com/article/learning-second-language-
when-why
http://classroom.synonym.com/young-adults-learning-second-language-
6635123.html