What are the Benefits of Learning a Second Language?

There are countless benefits to learning a second language! These include include improved brain development, improved social-emotional skills and cultural awareness, as well as additional job opportunities for bilingual speakers when they become adults!

And What are the Benefits of Learning Spanish at Home?

The Benefits of Language Learning at Home:

#1: You can choose to use the best practice approach. The science of second language acquisition has made it clear that the single most important element when acquiring a second language is Comprehensible Input. Teaching according to “CI” is unquestionably the best practice in language teaching. However, in a lot of classrooms, the traditional method of teaching is still followed. Oftentimes teachers still teach through output-based ‘drill and kill’ memorization techniques that research has shown are very ineffective for language acquisition. When you teach your child at home, you can choose to have a CI-based approach which will result in much more effective learning for your child!

#2: At home, you can access your digital learning solution any time. As we know, it’s all about the amount of CI, so the more often they get that CI, the more of the language your child will learn. At home you can structure things so there is daily CI in your child’s life, and they can meaningfully learn more Spanish!

#3: At home you don’t have to have the anxiety of learning in front of class mates. Anxiety is very detrimental to language learning, actually sabotages the language acquisition process. Now that you know how important it is that language learning be fun and compelling, at home you can choose to use tools that are fun, compelling and super engaging!

#4: Parent can respect the silent period: Often times in schools, teachers are under pressure to ‘demonstrate results’ and start requesting original output too soon, sabotaging the language acquisition process because they are being to ‘output’ focused. At home, you can choose to be patient and respect the child’s silent period.

#5: The parent can choose to teach through reading and storytelling, which is so powerful