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Languages Build... Video Series: Academic Benefits
Languages Build... Video Series: Academic Benefits
Children receiving second-language instruction often show higher achievement in a range of subject areas. Janice Aubry, former director of the Institute for Innovation in Second Language Education (IISLE) at Edmonton Public Schools, explains more in the sixth video of our Languages Build series.
Share all the videos with students, parents, and colleagues to highlight the importance of language learning! Use the hashtags #languagesbuild and #leslanguesfaconnent on social media.
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New CASLT Publication
New CASLT Publication
Facilitating Language Learning Through Technology: A Literature Review on Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) can be effective in enabling learners to work autonomously, to receive individualized feedback, and to be exposed to real-world language in a range of varieties and voices. Deciding on which technology to use and then learning how to use it, however, represent onerous tasks for teachers. To make this process easier, CASLT commissioned researchers from the Language Research Centre (LRC) at the University of Calgary to review and summarize selected research on implementing CALL effectively, both inside and outside of language classrooms.
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“Languages Build…” Toolkit
“Languages Build…” Toolkit
As part of the “Languages Build…” campaign, CASLT has developed an advocacy toolkit to raise awareness of numerous benefits of language learning. The tools in the kit are arranged by the eight impacts identified in the Literature Review on the Impact of Second-Language Learning, and they will be posted as the campaign unfolds. Please join us in advocating for language learning by using and sharing these tools within your network.
Visit the Languages Build Advocacy Toolkit Web page to find the advocacy tools and learn how to use them.
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Why Learn Languages? Languages Build...
Why Learn Languages? Languages Build…
Research shows that second-language learning is beneficial on many levels. But to what extent?
Visit our Why Learn Languages? tab and learn how languages build brains, academic performance, personality, societies, cultural competencies, economies and plurilingualism. Furthermore, learn how language learning is for all, read research-based articles on the impact of second-language learning and explore a variety of resources for teachers, parents, students, schools, school administrators and second language stakeholders.
