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EDUCATION IN SWITZERLAND

Key factors in raising Multilingual Children

April 21, 2012
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What is the best age to start learning another language? If you have a bilingual situation in the family the answer is very easy: right from the beginning.
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The State of Master’s and PhD Programs in Switzerland

April 11, 2012

By Sofia Rasmussen Switzerland’s commitment to underwrite the majority of the costs associated with master’s and PhD programs at its federal technology universities has proved something of a mixed blessing. On one hand, the offset costs help attract some of the world’s brightest and most innovative students. Graduate scholars are immersing themselves in a...
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Learning two languages

January 17, 2011

For a child to learn a second language, they must be exposed to that language. If a child receives little input in a language, they gain less proficiency, which leads to a lack of usage (Pearson, 2007). Parents are incredibly important: De Houwer (2007) argues that successfully rasing a child to speak two languages...
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Becoming bilingual

January 17, 2011

How to help children learn more than one language Earlier this year, I discussed some of the benefits of children learning more than one language and the advantages of bilingualism on literacy and cognition. Research has shown that parents are increasingly eager for their children to have knowledge of more than one language in order...
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Linguistic Relationships

January 17, 2011

The closer the linguistic relationship between two languages, the easier and faster it is to learn that language. Those who know Spanish are faster at learning other Latin languages like Portuguese, French and Italian.
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Strategy in raising Multilingual Children

January 17, 2011

The child identifies language with a person, space and/or time. These 3 relative factors are part of the strategy. Example of personal factor: one person speaks language A, another person speaks language B. For the child it is very clear with whom to use which language.
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Foreign Language Acquisition in Early Childhood

January 17, 2011

Among all forms of symbolization and expression, language is one of the most popular. That is why teaching of a language has become synonymous with education. Just as the potentiality of a tree lies latent in a tiny seed, the capacity of expression lies dormant in each and every human being. The duty of...
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One Childhood, Multiple Languages: The Advantages of a Bilingual Upbringing

September 19, 2010

(by Melanie C. Burns) In the age of globalisation, where a person can log on to a computer and communicate with someone else across the globe, where the mass media provides material from around the world, where migration means multicultural and multilingual societies, a variety of world languages are present like never before. This...
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Tandem pre-school and bilingualism

September 19, 2010

There are not only expatriate families that are thinking about the importance of teaching their kids to be bilingual. The fact that more people in the world are bilingual than monolingual, indicates that you are bound to meet people that may speak another language as their first language. “Furthermore, because of the movement of...
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Rudolf Steiner schools in Switzerland

September 19, 2010

List of Rudolf Steiner schools in Switzerland
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