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Early Start to Second Language Learning Helps Students in the Long Run
By Shazeena Ashraf
THERE
are
approximately
6,800 spoken languages
around the world and yet
most
Americans
are
monolingual. For hundreds
of years, Americans have
expected and relied on
other countries to speak
English.
For example,
when the first colonists
arrived, instead of learning
the native languages, the
settlers made the Natives
learn English. If that is not
the definition of laziness,
then I do not know what is.
This
education
systems
incorporate
a
second
language
into
the
curriculum
along with
math, science, and English
as soon as a child begins
school. For example,
teaching Spanish as early
as kindergarten could be
easily implemented since
about 17% of all citizens in
the United States are
Hispanic, surpassing the
12.3% of Blacks and 5%
Asians, as reported by a
study done by Factank. By
not
teaching
another
language at the beginning of
an individual's