1- The more you put your brain to work, the better it functions.
- When you learn a foreign language, your brain develops various other intellectual skills.
- And compared to students speaking one language, the multilingual students score higher marks in graded exams like maths, reading, language arts and vocabulary.
- Disregarding the race, gender or academic levels, the students learning foreign language surpass the monolingual students.
- Students who learn a foreign language develop greater cognitive skills in such areas as mental flexibility, creativity, divergent thinking, superiority in concept formation, diversification of cognitive abilities and higher order thinking skills.
- With each year of foreign language learning, the score in the speaking-section of exams increases. In a nutshell, learning a foreign language improves the student’s overall academic performance.
