Being Bilingual In School Research Paper

American students should definitely be required to learn a second language in school. It has economic benefits, it would facilitate global affairs, and it improves brain activity. The requirement that Americans students be bilingual would have international benefits. Being bilingual has many personal economical benefits. According to the university of Florida, fully bilingual Hispanics make, on average $7,000 per year more than there monolingual peers. This proves my claim that being bilingual can help you financially in the long run. Bilingualism helps facilitate global affairs. Only .6% of people in the embassy in Baghdad are fluent in Arabic. Today the U.S. Government are training 200+ people per year to speak basic Dari and Pashto,
common afghan languages. Although these examples are not directly related, they both show the need for bilingual people for foreign affairs. Bilingualism has many mental benefits. Bilingualism activates the frontal lobe, thus improving memory by more than 25%, adds three years to the onset age of Alzheimers, improves your response time by about 500 milliseconds, and improving language ability by more than 7%. These are all very important attributes that are important in day to day life. There are many reasons students should be taught a second language. It has economic benefits, it would facilitate global affairs, and it improves brain activity. Many other countries including most European and Asian countries require its students to studies one if not two foreign languages.