Sentences with phrase «learning a second language while»

To better understand this phenomenon, Joy Hirsch and her colleagues at the Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center in New York City studied two groups of bilingual people: early bilinguals who learned a second language while growing up, and late bilinguals who learned as adults.

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The key to learning a second language during your child's baby years is that their brain's networks and pathways haven't fully formed yet, so their brain is able to set up the «network» for both languages at once while they are babies, something that adult brains just can't do.

Such changes, Li and colleagues suggested while reviewing a number of related studies, are consistent with anatomical changes that can occur in the brain as a result of learning a second language, no matter the age of the learner, as they reported in a recent issue of Cortex.

«The phenomenon is very intense when we read in our native language but, according to the new study, if we read in a second language learnt after our mother tongue, then this physiological response, while not disappearing completely, is drastically lessened.»

While any amount of learning is beneficial, it's unlikely that a brief exposure to a second language actually helps lower your dementia risk.

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The «threshold» hypothesis states that there is a threshold level of linguistic competence in the native language that all children must attain in order to avoid cognitive disadvantages, while the «developmental interdependence» hypothesis holds that the development of skills in a second language is facilitated by skills already developed in learning the first language.

From kindergarten through second grade, students learn math and science while immersed in their second language.

While twenty or so years ago the stock of second language learning aids was somewhat limited, in our digital era teachers and parents have a huge number of technical means at their disposal.

Two of her students have significant special needs, while one other is learning English as a second language.

Our second stop is Tobias Elementary near Austin, TX, a school community that has embraced the Growth Mindset, while implementing The 7 Mindsets as a structure and common language for social and emotional learning.

Some schools actively seek native Spanish speakers, while others actively look for teachers who learned Spanish as a second language.

While Montessori, in and of itself, is a unique educational model, the Latin American Montessori Bilingual (LAMB) Public Charter School pairs it with second language development and inspires children to learn as part of a natural process of their development.