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2016 Conference

del 5 al 6 de May del 2016

Framingham, MA

MATSOL 2016 Conference Online Program

 

Invited: Two-way Dual Langauge (TWDL) and Transitional Bilingual Education (TBE) - State Guidance

jueves, el 5 de mayo de 2016 a las 15:30–16:15 EDT
1 Grand South
Abstract

The research base on the cognitive effects of bilingualism continues to grow at a rapid pace, spurred in large part by ongoing advances in brain imaging technology. It is now clear that bilingualism confers a number of cognitive benefits, including cognitive flexibility and creative thinking, communicative sensitivity, metalinguistic awareness, and enhanced executive function (Adesope, Lavin, Thompson, & Ungerleider, 2010). Once you know another language, it also becomes easier to learn additional languages. Most recently, studies with the elderly have shown that the on-going use of more than one language delays the onset of dementia by almost two years (Bialystok, Craig, & Freedman, 2010). It appears that the abilities to speak more than one language, to understand that the same concept can have more than one label, and to realize that not everyone speaks the same language(s) as you do are all associated with more general cognitive benefits.

 

Session Type

Invited Session (45 minutes)

Topic Strand

Best Practices in Instruction

Primary Audience

PK-12 Schools

Secondary Audience

General (of interest to PK-12, adult, and higher education)

Presenter/organizer

Zhaneta Liti, DESE- Office of English Language Acquisition and Academic Achievement
Biographical Statement

Zhaneta Liti is the English Language Education Coordinator for the Eastern part of the State at Massachusetts Department of Education

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