700 Reasons: Reason #128
- Reason: 128
- Learning languages also has another important effect: experience shows that when undertaken from a very early age, it is an important factor in doing well at school. Contact with another language is not only compatible with becoming proficient in one's mother tongue, it also makes it easier
- Reference:
- European Commission (1995: 67) cited in Byram, M. (2002) 'Foreign language education as political and moral education - an essay' in the Language Learning Journal, No. 26, pp. 43-47
- Related Keywords:
- Education Studies, English Mother Tongue, Language awareness, Personal and social development
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