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door along
the way.
 Language learning
supports Academics
scores of high school students who had
or had not taken at least one year of
foreign language study supported that
the length of foreign language study
was positively related to high SAT
verbal scores.
Learning language
provides cognitive
benefits to students
The definition of cognitive is.....
relating to the mental processes of
for longer periods of time will do better
perception, memory, judgment, and
reasoning, as contrasted with
emotional and volitional processes.
Correlation between
language studies showed
higher SAT /ACT scores
when verbal ability is controlled,
students who study foreign language
on various SAT sub-tests and on the
SAT-Verbal as a whole than students
who have studied less foreign
language;

Comparing 9-10-year-olds to English

results firmly supported the claim that The Human and Social sciences
monolinguals showed that the
bilingualism fosters the development compares the English and Spanish
bilingual skilled readers scored higher
of verbal and spatial abilities. academic performances with the
on word reading and spelling.
program TWI

language learning has proven Bilingual children perform better than It has been proven that kids who
that it has improved grades on monolingual because they use high translate from their immigrant
levels of control when processing
the standardized test. things.
parents increase their academic
performance.