Archive for August, 2014
In Your Dreams: Can You Learn a Foreign Language in Your Sleep? Posted by meaghan on Aug 6, 2014 in Archived Posts
A “good night’s sleep” seems to be the solution to many things. What if I told you that “sleeping on it” could be a new strategy for language learning? Sounds like a dream, right? Maybe not. Researchers in Switzerland dug a little deeper into the “learn while sleep” myth, and the results were quite surprising…
Is Monolingualism the Illiteracy of the 21st Century? Posted by meaghan on Aug 4, 2014 in Archived Posts
I came across a Gregg Roberts quote that said “Monolingualism is the illiteracy of the 20th century”, and haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. I’m not quite sure who Gregg Roberts is (though a quick Google search associates him with a World Language Specialist for the Utah Department of Education), but he…