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World of World Languages

• Why do we need to embrace it?

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Value of a second language

• Second language learners exposure to new
  cultures new horizons helps them understand
  English better.

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Value of a second language or third

• Foreign language learners place higher on both
  the ACT and the SAT verbal sections.

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Value of a third language or a fourth

• Foreign language learners show greater cognitive
  development, creativity, divergent thinking
  than monolingual students.

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Value of multilingualism

• Multilingual students outscore monolingual
  students on tests of verbal nonverbal
  intelligence.

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Value of Multilingualism

• Students exposed to more than one language at an
  early age are more flexible creative, have
  better memory listening skills.

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Value of Multilingualism

• Students exposed to more than one language at an
  early age reach higher cognitive development
  levels sooner than monolingual students.

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Academic Benefits

• Learning additional languages enhances students
  academic skills in other subjects such as
  reading, writing, and mathematics.

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Academic Benefits

• Reading skills are transferable from one language
  to another.

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Academic Benefits

• World language/foreign language students
  significantly outperform their monolingual peers
  on tests.

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Academic Benefits

• Functional plasticity of the brain is driven by
  language knowing additional languages can add
  to the brains gray matter.

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Who is a good candidate?

• Millions of people with a variety of intelligence
  levels as well as diverse upbringings become
  bilingual or multilingual.

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Whos a good candidate?

• Common concerns question the peak age to begin
  world language study.

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Whos a good candidate?

• Studies show that young children may absorb a
  language through large amounts of input and
  exposure.
• Adolescents adults appreciate explicit
  learning, rules, and systematic practice.

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Whos a good candidate?

• Young learners may be more likely to speak a new
  language like a native, but adolescents and
  adults may actually learn a world language faster.

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Whos a good candidate?

• Students individual differences impact the ease
  of learning a world language. A students
  aptitude motivation can be key factors.

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Whats the Catch?

• Americans are historically unresponsive to the
  learning of world languages which is a threat to
  their own security physically, ideologically,
  and economically.

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Whats the Catch?

• The nations requirements for language
  proficiency involve National Security, Economic
  Competitiveness, Social Well Being.

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Whats the Catch?

• Many studies, hearings, reports have pointed
  out our nations serious language shortages,
  called upon the federal government to increase
  improve the United States language capabilities.

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Whats the Catch?

• Ensuring U.S. security, foreign policy
  leadership, economic competitiveness, and our
  ability to solve global problems that affect the
  nations well being depend on Americans who have
  an understanding of and ability to function
  effectively in other cultural, business, and
  value systems, as well as foreign language
  proficiency.
• --Committee on Appropriations, H.Rpt. 107229
  (2001), p.126

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Whats the Catch?

• American national interests require that the
  current American leaders think more about
  international affairs than ever before.

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Economic Advantages

• All business is global, yet all markets are
  local. This globalized multicultural world needs
  leaders with a keen understanding of national
  cultures. By learning from other countries,
  these leaders develop the best thinking and best
  practices from around the world enabling them to
  leverage culture as a tool for competitive
  advantage.
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  --R. Rosen,
  Global Literacies (200), p.171

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Economic Advantages

• Foreign language proficiency is an enormous
  advantage in the business world.

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Economic Advantages

• It would benefit businesses to hire those who can
  communicate in foreign markets.

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Economic Advantages

• Someone will have to oversee the local national
  managers as businesses expand overseas.

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Economic Advantages

• In a survey of leading European executives only
  31 use English for business purposes English
  alone cannot be used to access the non-English
  speaking markets.

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Economic Advantages

• About 45 of Europeans are fluent enough to hold
  a conversation in a second language.
• About 80 of residents in the Netherlands,
  Denmark, and Sweden are fluent in a second
  language nearly everyone in Luxembourg speaks a
  second language.

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Economic Advantages

• You can buy in any language, but if you want to
  sell you better speak the language of your
  customer.
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Jobs Jobs Jobs Jobs Jobs Jobs

• Business, Industry, Commerce
• Banking Financial Positions
• Technical Engineering Positions
• Secretarial Clerical Positions
• Government International
• Local Government
• International United Nations
• Teaching
• Translators Interpreters
• Media
• Travel Tourism
• Services (Health, Social Work, Law Law
  Enforcement, Service Organizations)

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Why French?

• Why French?
• Why French?
• Why French?
• Why French?
• Why French?
• Why French?
• Why French?
• Why French?

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Advantages to French

• The Organization of Francophonie has 51 member
  states governments. 28 of these members have
  French as an official language.

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Advantages to French?

• There are at least 16 nations in Africa where
  French is the national language. Africa is the
  one largely undeveloped continent remaining.
• French-speaking Africa encompasses an area
  greater than the USA.

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Advantages to French

• French is the official working language of the
  United Nations, UNESCO, NATO, Organization for
  Economic Cooperation Development, International
  Labor Bureau, International Olympic Committee,
  31-member Council of Europe, European Community,
  Universal Postal Union, International Red Cross,
  the Union of International Associations.

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Advantages to French

• French is spoken by our largest trading partner
  Canada. Quebec Province is the US 5th largest
  trading partner.

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Advantages to French

• France the US are the top 2 exporters in 3
  sectors defense products, agricultural goods,
  services.

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Advantages to French

• French companies employ about 500,000 Americans.
  
• US companies in France employ about 600,000
  people.

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Advantages to French

• France is a major world research center in areas
  related to physics, AIDS research, medical
  genetics.
• France is a technological leader in aerospace,
  rockets, telecommunications transportation
  (such as the TGV the Queen Mary II).

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Advantages to French

• Many important writings have come from France
  some of which are never translated.
• French is the most widely spoken foreign language
  in the world after English.
• Through French study, students become familiar
  with a culture that significantly influences our
  own.

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Why German?

• Why German?
• Why German?
• Why German?
• Why German?
• Why German?
• Why German?
• Why German?
• Why German?
• Why German?

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Advantages to German?

• English is a Germanic language BETT/bed,
  GLAS/glass, SCHUH/shoe, LICHT/light, SONNE/sun,
  MILCH/milk.

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Advantages to German in Michigan?

• German companies contribute approximately 31
  billion to Michigans economy annually.

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Advantages to German in Michigan?

• Michigan has more people employed by German-owned
  companies than any other state.

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Advantages to German in Michigan?

• Around 610 Michigan companies are German-owned or
  have at least 50 German ownership.

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Advantages to German in Michigan?

• More than 75 Michigan-based companies have
  operations in Germany.

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Advantages to German?

• Major German companies in the U.S. include
  Siemens, ThyssenKrupp, TMobile, Bayer, Adidas,
  Audi, Braun, Deutsche Bank.

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Advantages to German?

• Major U.S. companies in Germany include
  Citibank, Microsoft, WalMart, Merrill Lynch,
  AOL.DE, UPS, and Starbucks Coffee.

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World Language - Japanese

• Japanese is a World Language. It expands the
  learners personal horizon while making the
  learner aware of significant details. It opens
  windows to another world full of cultural
  curiosities and new friends. One can understand
  a people through its language. Real life
  experiences and world language practice are
  crucial to learning a world language and
  understanding its culture.

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Advantages to Japanese

• Japanese is widely used in business situations
  with the Japanese.

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Advantages to Japanese

• Japanese language learners find that new
  experiences relationships open to them through
  the language exchange opportunities,
  competitions, trips both in the U.S. to Japan,
  business political contacts, Internet pen pals,
  fellow animation manga fans.

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Advantages to Japanese in Michigan

• Strong economic relations between Japan Michigan

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Advantages to Japanese in Michigan

• Japanese Direct Investment in 2006

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Advantages to Japanese in Michigan

• Japan is a leading investor in Michigan with at
  least 410 facilities across the state

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Advantages to Japanese in Michigan
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Advantages to Japanese in Michigan

• Approximately 260 Michigan facilities are in
  industrial sectors whereas about 150 of the
  non-industrial Japanese facilities are in the
  commercial trade sector

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Advantages to Japanese in Michigan
Japanese Population in Michigan
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Global Advantages to Japanese
GCI GCI GCI
Country/ Economy 2006 Rank 2006 Score 2005 Rank Changes 2005-6
Switzerland 1 5.81 4 3
Finland 2 5.76 2 0
Sweden 3 5.74 7 4
Denmark 4 5.70 3 -1
Singapore 5 5.63 5 0
United States 6 5.61 1 -5
Japan 7 5.60 10 3
Germany 8 5.58 6 -2
Netherlands 9 5.56 11 2
United Kingdom 10 5.54 9 -1
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Why Spanish?

• Why Spanish?
• Why Spanish?
• Why Spanish?
• Why Spanish?
• Why Spanish?
• Why Spanish?
• Why Spanish?
• Why Spanish?

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Advantages to Spanish

• Spanish is one of the most spoken languages
  worldwide.

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Advantages to Spanish

• The US is the 5th largest Spanish speaking
  country in the world.

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Advantages to Spanish

• NAFTA, CAFTA, ALCA, MERCOSUR have caused many
  manufacturing jobs to be relocated to Latin
  America. Hundreds of American companies have
  subsidiaries already established.

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Advantages to Spanish

• Due to the high number of Spanish speaking
  consumers, American businesses have recognized
  the benefit to anyone in any profession who
  speaks Spanish.

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Advantages to Spanish

• Spanish is one of the official languages of the
  United Nations, European Union, Organization of
  Americas States, and the Inter-American System.

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Resources

• World Economic Forum
• Japanese Consulate-General in Detroit
• www.laprensa-sandiego.org/archieve/june25-04/dod.h
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• www.associatedcontent.com/pop_print.shtml?content_
  typearticlecontent_type_id222395
• www.universalhighways.com/foreign-language-careers
  .html
• www.associatedcontent.com/pop_print.shtml?content_
  typearticlecontent_type_id222415
• www.utm.edu/departments/french/flsat.html
• National Language Conference Briefing Paper The
  Nations Strategic Language Needs
• www.goethe.de
• www.emich.edu/public/foreignlanguages/german/
• www.worldbridge.wayne.edu/germanbridge/whygermanin
  michigan
• www.macombdaily.com
• www.gaccmi.org
• www.michigan.gov
• Research Points Spring 2006 Volume 4 Issue 1
• Education Update Wilcox, John. Foreign Language
  Learning Gap Concerns U.S. Leaders. P.3, 6.
• A New Era for Foreign Languages. Edwards, J.
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• www.granadanicaraguaspanish.com/learn-spanish-cour
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• http//www.investinfrance.org/NorthAmerica/Choosin
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World of World Languages

• Prepared by Stevenson High School World Language
  Department
• Cathy Dyer
• Sherri Fisher-Sinacola
• Jonathan Kantor
• Denise Makuch
• Jane OBrien
• Helga Rom
• Evelyn Ruiz
• Melisia Taylor
• Olivia Wylie
• (Research contributors)