by cristahazell | Dec 30, 2021 | News
Researchers in Japan used magnetic resonance imaging to study the brains of secondary school students during a task focused on musical observation. They found that students trained to play music from a young age exhibited certain kinds of brain activity more strongly...
by cristahazell | Dec 30, 2021 | News
Interest in anime, gaming and K-pop is fuelling a boom in Korean and Japanese university degrees that is helping to revive modern languages departments struggling with falling enrolments. Acceptances to study Korean more than trebled from 50 to 175 between 2012 and...
by cristahazell | Dec 30, 2021 | News
New visa requirements mean that EU students will go elsewhere, writes Karen Brandes, while Brigid Hoffmann worries about the consequences for language learning. The slump in school trips to the UK described in your article does not surprise me at all (‘Almost...
by cristahazell | Dec 30, 2021 | News
Groups from the continent are going elsewhere, tour operators say, deterred more by passport and visa rules than the pandemic. Post-Brexit changes to Britain’s immigration rules have triggered an unprecedented collapse in bookings for school trips from the...
by cristahazell | Dec 13, 2021 | News
Bilingual people engage the same brain region that monolingual individuals use to put together words—even when combining different languages. Billions of people worldwide speak two or more languages. (Though the estimates vary, many sources assert that more...
