WHY STUDY a FOREIGN LANGUAGE? HOW CAN PARENTS HELP? EHC09/06

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WHY STUDY a FOREIGN LANGUAGE? HOW CAN PARENTS
HELP? EHC09/06
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY

• Enhances the skills of
• Listening
• Speaking
• Reading Writing

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This leads to

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• Higher Test Scores
• Meeting College a-g
• More Career Opportunities
• Cultural Understanding

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a g Requirement

• Generally, a minimum of two
• years of a g approved
• foreign language credit in the
• same language is required for
• admission to most four-year
• colleges.
• Call your students counselor for unique
  situations.

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LISTENING

• Foreign language study enhances listening
  skills and memory
• this helps with communication, study skills,
  and test taking

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HIGHER TEST SCORES

• During the past several years, statistics from
  the College Board show a positive correlation
  between SAT scores in English and math and the
  study of foreign language.

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GLOBAL ECONOMY

• One half of the top profit-making companies on
  Fortune Magazines 500 list are foreign owned.
  
• Four out of five new jobs in the U.S. are
  created as a result of foreign trade.

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SPEAKING WRITING SKILLS

• U.S. students who study a foreign language tend
  to use better grammar in English as a result of
  focusing on grammar rules in the second language.

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CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING

• Many employers and the government
• need workers who not only
• understand a second LANGUAGE
• but who also
• understand the CULTURE.

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HOW CAN PARENTS HELP?

• Make sure your student completes all of his/her
  assignments.

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HOW CAN PARENTS HELP?

• Make sure your student is ON TIME PREPARED
  for class.

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HOW CAN PARENTS HELP?

• Make sure your student studies vocabulary every
  night. Work together with flashcards!

Bonjour
Buenos días!
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HOW CAN PARENTS HELP?

• You read the
• English word
• and your
• student says
• the word in the
• target language.

Bonjour
Hello
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HOW CAN PARENTS HELP?

• Watch DVDs
• at home in
• the target
• language!

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HOW CAN PARENTS HELP?

• Ask your student
• to teach you a new
• word in the target
• language each day.
• They can even give
• you a quiz!!

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HOW CAN PARENTS HELP?

• Other ways PARENTS can HELP with
• FOREIGN LANGUAGE study