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Celebrate First Bilingual Literacy Month
Read Conmigo, the bilingual literacy campaign for children sponsored by Infinity Auto Insurance, has declared the first annual Bilingual Literacy Month this May. As the first celebration of its kind, Bilingual Literacy Month aims...
Louisiana Debates Bilingual Education as a Right
Lawmakers in Louisiana are pushing to make language immersion a right.
“Every kid should have the right of a bilingual education,” said Rep. Stephen Ortego (D) of Carenco. “It’s not fair it’s the luck of...
Schools Consortium Calls for Bilingualism
According to a new "federal accountability framework" released by the forward-thinking Large Countywide and Suburban District Consortium, “Federal law should: A. Establish college and career readiness (CCR) as the goal for all students, recognizing...
Bilingualism Better than ‘Any Drug’ at Delaying Dementia
Yet another study has confirmed the positive benefits of multilingualism on the brain but this is the first to show that the protective effects of bilingualism extend to people who are illiterate.
According to the...
All Students Benefit from Bilingual Education
Bilingual education programs have a very positive effect on the native English speakers attending schools with such programs even though they do not take part in them, according to a groundbreaking study published in...
Bilinguals More Mentally Flexible
Bilingual speakers can switch languages seamlessly, likely developing a higher level of mental flexibility than monolinguals, according to Penn State linguistic researchers.
"In the past, bilinguals were looked down upon," said Judith F. Kroll, Distinguished...
Study to Examine Achievement of Bilingual Students
The RAND Corporation, a nonprofit think tank, is studying the effects of dual-language immersion on student achievement in Portland Public Schools with a three-year, $1.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute...
First International Conference on Bilingual Education in a Globalized World
Alcalá de Henares, Spain, May 9-11, 2013
Instituto Franklin-UAH will host the First International Conference on Bilingual Education in a Globalized World: Comparison between Spain and the United States. This conference aims to be an...
Bilingual Children Have Better Working Memory
A study conducted at Spain’s University of Granada and the University of York in Toronto, Canada, has revealed that bilingual children develop a better working memory – the ability to hold, process, and update...
Why Bilinguals Code Switch
The proficiency that a bilingual person has in both languages, the context in which the languages are spoken, and unconscious changes in their use are the factors that make people who speak Spanish and...
