700 Reasons: Reason #402
- Reason: 402
- A monolingual mentality is not the same as a multilingual one. There is therefore an educational reason for learning a modern language which is that it can allow students to operate two or more different systems of representation and thereby acquire the flexibility of perspective shared by the rest of the world who speak more than one language
- Reference:
- Scottish Executive, Ministerial Action Group on Languages (2000) Citizens of a Multilingual World: Key Issues (www.scotland.gov.uk-library3-education-mwki-07.asp)
- Related Keywords:
- Education Studies, Multilingualism, Values
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