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The Importance of Language Learning for Cognitive and Cultural Development

Learning a language enriches our community intellectually, educationally, and culturally. It fosters social cohesion through improved communication and understanding across borders. Language education enhances employment prospects and overall career development. It develops critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and diverse ways of knowing. Learning a second language accelerates cognitive growth, enhances analytical abilities, and promotes a richer understanding of one's first language. Language learning is integral to literacy development and provides unique insights into the nature of language itself.

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The Importance of Language Learning for Cognitive and Cultural Development

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  1. Because language learning.. WHY LEARN A LANGUAGE???????? • Enriches our community intellectually, educationally and culturally • Contributes to social cohesiveness within and across borders through better communication and understanding • Contributes to our economic, diplomatic, strategic, scientific and technological development • Enhances employment and career prospects for the individual

  2. LANGUAGE LEARNING contributes to the overall education of learners, by developing the capability to: • Communicate, interact and negotiate within and across languages and cultures • Understand themselves and others, and to understand and use diverse ways of knowing, being and doing

  3. and…. • Think critically and analytically, to solve problems, to make connections in their learning and to continue to learn in a knowledge-based society • Understand their own and others’ languages, thus developing a richer range of literacy skills, including English literacy…..

  4. Cognitive Development and Literacy The study of languages: • Accelerates cognitive development, verbally and non-verbally • Develops higher order thinking skills, mental dexterity, analytical and decoding skills • Leads to higher order linguistic skills, understanding and greater literacy in the first language

  5. In other words… • Learning a new language teaches the learner something about the nature of language and languages, and this is knowledge which needs to be developed by a literate person. • Language teachers not only teach a language, they also teach about language as a concept, and about communication, context, and culture (Liddicoat, Crozet, Jansen, and Schmidt 1997). • Learning a second language helps to create a perspective on one’s first language and helps one to learn about one’s first language.

  6. And…. • Most importantly, it helps one to come to see languageas an object that can be talked about, which is a fundamental step in becoming literate. • Second language learning is therefore a resource forenhancing literacy, not a problem for acquiring literacy. • It forms part of a whole package for learning about language as a part of schooling and provides additional insights into the nature of language that are not available to the monolingual learner.

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