Tag Archives: Second Language Learning
Learning A Second Language: Morning, Noon and Night: The Stages of Our Lives With Languages
What does a baby listening to a bilingual music CD, a school age child learning two words in two languages for the same object and an elderly person sitting in a retirement community have in common? They all will experience a wide array of benefits derived from being bilingual. Continue reading
Raising A Bilingual Child: 5 Strategies to Jump Start Your Child’s Second Language Learning
Remember those language learning labs in junior high school? Those labs with headsets where we were asked to listen and then repeat back to the taped voice of the instructor?
That was absolutely one of the least effective methods used to teach a second language! Not to mention it was at a point in our lives when our brain was no longer capable of acquiring a new language easily. Combine those labs with workbooks and lots of verb conjugation and you have generations of students who came out of a system unable to speak a second language. Continue reading
