- Reason: 155
- Those of you who already speak one of the UK’s community languages have a very useful qualification to add to your CV - particularly if you see yourself eventually working in social work or a related career such as health care, child care, youth work, education, legal aid, immigration law, welfare and community development
- Reference:
- King, A., Thomas, G. (1999) The Guide to Languages and Careers (London: CILT)
- Related Keywords:
- Careers, Education Studies, Employability, Health, Law, UK Community Languages
- Reason: 158
- There are openings abroad, too, for nurses and other health care workers. Again some knowledge of relevant languages would obviously desirable
- Reference:
- King, A., Thomas, G. (1999) The Guide to Languages and Careers (London: CILT)
- Related Keywords:
- Careers, Employability, Health, Mobility
- Reason: 264
- Many would argue that knowing a foreign language enhances quality of life
- Reference:
- Wicksteed, K. (2004) 'Languages and the Baccalaureate' in Languages, Mathematics and the Baccalaureate (London: The Nuffield Foundation), pp. 12-17
- Related Keywords:
- Health, Personal and social development, Personal satisfaction
- Reason: 295
- The growth in the multilingual population in the UK indicates the need for a wider range of language provision related to the public services, namely Health, Law and Local Government
- Reference:
- Connell, T. (2002) Languages and Employability: A Question of Careers (www.cilt.org.uk/careers/pdf/reports/employability.pdf)
- Related Keywords:
- Employability, Health, Inclusion, Language for specific purposes, Law, UK, UK Community Languages
- Reason: 321
- There are good grounds for conceiving the natural condition of the human being to be multilingual. The human brain has the natural capacity to learn several languages and most members of the human race live in settings where they naturally and efficiently use their brains in precisely this way... People who belong to a predominantly monolingual culture are not used to seeing the world in this way, because their mindset has been established through centuries of being part of a dominant culture, in which other people learn your language and you do not learn theirs
- Reference:
- Crystal, D. (2000) Language Death (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
- Related Keywords:
- Equality (equal opportunities), Health, Multilingualism, Values
- Reason: 439
- Learning and using a second language helps to protect the brain from the effects of ageing. Research has found that bilingual people are far better at retaining their mental abilities into old age than the majority, who speak only one language. The findings suggest that parents who help their children to learn a language while young could be raising their chances of a healthy old age
- Reference:
- Leake, J. (2004) (report on research by Bialystok, E.) 'Talking a second language keeps old age at bay' in Times Online, June 13, 2004, www.timesonline.co.uk
- Related Keywords:
- Health, Multilingualism
- Reason: 723
- There is an acute shortage of interpreters in all public services
- Reference:
- Higher Education Advisory Panel
- Related Keywords:
- Careers, Employability, Equality (equal opportunities), Health, Law, Translating
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