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    The following studies explain how multilingual children are exposed to better communicative advantages and cognitive adaptations over monolingual children. The first study, analyzes how infants react to the exposure of different languages and how they can recognize communicative partners related to the language itself. The next study explains how children that are merely exposed to a second language can have similar communicative advantages as bilingual children. Finally, the last study focuses on the cognitive adaptations that children are exposed to in bilingual environments. As it was mentioned before, the first study analyzed the reaction of an unfamiliar person among monolingual and bilingual 20-month-olds and how they interpreted this…

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    The benefits of multilingual language competency have an important influence on different spheres of life on personal, social and professional levels. Knowledge of foreign languages are beneficial every day, either you are communicating with foreign people for personal matters or dealing with professional business at work. Furthermore, multilingualism broadens career perspectives. Nevertheless, the main problem seems to be that people are unable to comprehend these facts, which shows the…

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    1. Quote: “Why are there rich people and poor people, abled and disabled, urban and rural, multilingual and monolingual, highly educated and poorly educated?” My thinking: I can imagine that in the suburban district a lot of parents can afford additional fees to contribute to their child’s education which in rural and urban areas they have little to no money to contribute due to trying to maintain a home. With students who are abled and disabled, you have more one on one attention to help you…

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    The role of English, an effective way to comprehend a new country, the most popular language in the world, has the spiritual meaning for citizens, occupies the biggest percentage in the USA. In the recent days, I read Michael Snyder’s article “ Is America Destined To Become A Multilingual Nation?” makes me rethink “ the change of English” and “the influence of multilingual language”. Michael Snyder strongly mixed his personal thoughts and feelings in the reading material. He extremely…

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    Most of the empirical research confirms that most children learn best in their first language as a basis for bilingual and multilingual education. Studies indicate that six to eight years of education is necessary for the development of literacy and verbal proficiency required for secondary school academic achievement. Empirical evidence suggests that the ability of a child to learn a second language does not suffer if the primary language used for instruction in the entire primary school is the…

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    The power of multilingual writers can convince a reader to have a different view of academic discourse. The alternative discourse helps the writers to recognize the variety of roles in the academic contexts that are limited to monolingual writers. Multilingual writers are given a variety of benefits like job opportunities and self confidence. Nowadays, multilingual speakers have a higher chance of getting a job than monolingual speakers. The more languages we speak, the high the chances are to…

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    Language does not control our lives, we do. In discussion of the advantages of being multilingual, it is important to entertain all argument and to directly respond to those with conflicting options. While discussing this issue two sides typically develop; one side will argue it is beneficial to learn multiple languages whereas the other side will say it is not beneficial because there are no foreign or domestic advantages. Americans who are monolingual are not at a disadvantage in the world…

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    Revision of mid-term essay How do Tan and Baldwin make the point for the acceptance of the multilingual society? What is multilingual? Well, multilingual is having more than one voice or languages. Multilingual was main acceptance in both Baldwin and Tan piece because the society we are residing in today, people are coming from many different culture and language throughout the world to live together. In order to take control over our circumstances through society today one must put aside their…

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    express them to you as a reader quickly begins to feel foolish. Language is so important, but so overlooked that it’s not surprising that I’d so quickly question it in this way. There’s not a day that we as humans don’t take advantage of the concept that is language. Language is THE method of human communication. Being that language is so unfathomably significant and essential to the human experience I find it odd that a natural potential that is so accessible to all people is very rarely met…

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    is the growing demand for learning foreign languages. More and more people around the world have been taking second, third language classes for multiple purposes, especially professional advancement. Being multilingual has become so essential that many countries such as France and Switzerland, have made it compulsory to learn at least one language other than the speaker’s mother tongue. However, not everyone approves of this development.…

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