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Promotional Material

Below you will find links to ideas and articles about promoting languages and language learning. You might find them useful for parent evenings, options evenings or presentations to your Board of Trustees.

For Teachers

LOTE Promotional Brochure, Department of Education, Tasmania

This useful brochure contains ideas about the benefits for the student of learning a second language. "Learning a language enables students to become global citizens. It helps build bridges of knowledge, respect and empathy with citizens of other nations."

Click here to view the brochure.

Why Learn a Language?

There are many websites providing useful explanations of reasons for learning a language. Here are a few of them.

Reasons for language study

Why Learn Languages?

A Case for Learning a Foreign Language

Why you should NOT learn a foreign language

... and if you just want a good laugh, read the article Finnish as a world language

Research on language learning and its effect on the brain

In recent years, considerable medical research has shown that learning a language has a positive long-term effect on strengthening the brain. Click here to read an article.