8 BENEFIT OF ENGLISH LANGUANGE LEARNING

1. The ability to communicate in a new language

The main benefit a person gains when committing to learn English or any language is
the ability to communicate with the language itself and create connections with a
wider range of the worlds population.

2. The brain undergoes a change in electrical activity

Before this study it was believed this change in brain functioning only occurred when
students had obtained a high level of language ability in the new language, but this
study revealed this change may occur at the earliest stages of language learning.

3. Superior memory function

Language learning showed an increase in memory capacities, this was especially
strong in short-term memory. This is a huge benefit because it allows the brain to
keep information in the brain for longer durations while thinking processes are
activated.

4. Increased mental flexibility

The article explains this keeps mental path ways opened up which allows a person
to use differing avenues for thought. Language learning helps exercise the brain to
keep it flexible and agile.

5. Increased problem-solving abilities

A person also benefits from language learning by gaining increased problem-solving
abilities in all of the following areas: abstract thinking skills, concept formation,
creative hypothesis formulation, strengthened capacity to identify, understand and
solve problems; the ability to focus on a task by filtering out distractions and
extraneous information and an increase in multi-tasking ability.

6. Greater comprehension for how language works and

is used
Language acquisition also benefits a person by creating a greater comprehension for
how language works and is used. The study found individuals with multilingual
communication were able to better read and interpret social situations, which
improved their performance in social settings.

7. Prevents the deterioration of brain functioning over

time
The study reports that individuals who were multilingual had a decreased rate of 2 to
4 years in the development of age-related cognitive problems such as dementia.

8. Increased ability in digital literacy

The culmination of all these advantages results in one last benefit: an increased
ability in digital literacy. Because of these quickened mental abilities individuals which
are multilingual have a noticeable ability to stay up to date with modern
technologies. Reading about this benefit reminded me of this quote: Our intelligence
tends to produce technological and social change at a rate faster than our institutions
and emotions can cope withWe therefore find ourselves continually trying to
accommodate new realities within inappropriate existing institutions, and trying to
think about those new realities in traditional but sometimes dangerously irrelevant
terms. (War: The Lethal Custom, p. 441). Clearly having increased mental agility due
to language acquisition helps the average language learners better stay adrift all of
the technological and informational changes constantly evolving in todays world.