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Speaking two languages confers lifelong cognitive rewards that spread far beyond the improved ability to communicate, a series of scientific findings has shown. In the latest research, described Friday at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the onset of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease was delayed by more than four years in elderly bilingual adults, even though they had identical brain damage compared with a group of adults in the study who spoke only one language. "It’s not that being bilingual prevents Alzheimer’s," said Ellen Bialystok, a professor of psychology at York University, in Toronto. "It’s just that you are better able to cope."
CLIL, is among
the examples cited and is of unusual interest, as already noted in the 2004-06 Commission Action Plan for
promoting language learning and linguistic diversity. By means of this kind of educational provision,
pupils learn school subjects in the curriculum while at the same time exercising and improving their
language skills. Subjects and languages are combined to offer them a better preparation for life in
Europe, in which mobility is becoming increasingly more widespread and should be within reach of
everyone.
This study explores social interactive features of synchronous computermediated
communication (CMC)-commonly known as “chat”-as such
features unfolded in real time and developed over a nine-week period in
two fourth-semester college Spanish classes.
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