World bilingualism authority slapped LKY - English Lauguage is OUT!

[motormafia]

LKY old fart tot SG have Ang Moh edge over PRC and comment like an idiot that PRC should learn Ang Moh to catch up.

But Ang Moh expert slapped LKY now to report study said English Language is going to be OUT.



http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/100820/18/jsoi.html


美研究：英語不再是王道
(商台)2010年8月20日 星期五 18:02

【商台 互動國際組】英語曾被認為是世界語言，但隨著時代發展，其他語言也將有機會取代英語成為世界語言，部分美國 父母要求子女掌握多種語言。

懂得多種語言兒童英語差

加拿大 約克大學（York University）心理學教授艾倫•比亞韋斯托克（Allen Bialystok）表示對懂得兩種語言兒童的大腦發育進行研究，研究結果表明學習兩種語言不會使兒童變得聰明，常用英語詞匯量小於只會一種語言兒童。

學習多種語言可增強競爭力

儘管美國絕大部分父母希望找到會 說英語保姆照顧子女，但仍有紐約 部分父母希望找到懂得其他語言保姆幫助子女學習另一種語言，美國很多父母表示子女學習多種語言可增強日後社會競爭力，亦可方便與不同種族人士溝通。

鑒於美國紐約有多個種族人士生活，所以很多紐約兒童都能接觸多種語言。38歲西蒙娜•索薩（Simone Sosa）平日只會用英語與子女溝通，由於丈夫是德國 人，所以平日只用德語與子女溝通。近日西蒙娜更請來一名會說西班牙 語保姆，並要求保姆只能跟子女說西班牙語，西蒙娜表示這樣做是為了讓子女學習多種語言，學習兩種或以上語言會較容易學習新語言。

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Bialystok

Ellen Bialystok is a Canadian psychologist who is currently a Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at York University as well as an Associate Scientist at the Rotman Research Institute of the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care.

She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1976.

Her main interest in research has been in the area of bilingualism and its effect on language and cognitive development in children. This area has expanded to also include exploration of adult processing and how bilingualism from a young age affects the cognitive skills, and retention of these skills, with aging. She has also worked in the areas of literacy acquisition in children, metalinguistic awareness models and second language acquisition, and the development of spatial cognition.

In addition to teaching and doing research, she has lectured in universities around the world, spanning four continents.

Awards

* Killam Research Fellowship
* Walter Gordon Research Fellowship
* Dean's Award for Outstanding Research
* Learning Distinguished Scholar in Residence.

[edit] Current Research
[edit] Bilingualism and Cognitive Development

This area of research explores the effect of bilingualism on different aspects of cognitive development in children. The children taking part in the study are between 4 and 8 years old. It has shown that in solving problems that include misleading information, bilingual children perform better than monolingual children. This trend has been shown with both verbal and nonverbal tasks.
[edit] Acquisition of Literacy Skills

This area of research explores the conditions through which children learn to read. Connecting it back to Bialystok's interest in the effect of bilingualism, the cognitive and linguistic skills that are needed for children to become literate and the factors that are involved with doing so in different languages are also explored. This research looks at a group of monolinguals and three groups of bilinguals, with different relationships between English and the second language: for Spanish-English bilinguals the languages are similar and they are both written alphabetically in the same script, for Hebrew-English bilinguals the languages are different but they are both written alphabetically (phonetic Hebrew) in different scripts, for Chinese-English bilinguals both the language and the writing system are different.
[edit] Behavioural and Neuroimaging Studies of Executive Functioning

This research uses behavioural and neuroimaging studies of the performance of the processes that make up the response to certain attention and conflict tasks. In this way it is possible to find the executive processes involved in completing these tasks. The executive functions are the set of related abilities that are responsible for working memory, inhibitory control and planning. The control of all of these functions is found in the frontal lobes of the brain. Part of this research includes comparing the performance on these tasks, and the response of the brain, between monolingual and bilingual participants.
[edit] Bilingualism and Cognitive Aging

This area of research looks at how the previously studied executive processes are affected by ageing. Normally these processes decline with age. In children and young adults the research has shown that the studied executive process are enhanced in bilingual individuals. The thought driving this research is that bilingualism, starting at a young age, combats this decline with age by reducing the rate with which the response naturally slows down as people get older. Thus far the studies have shown that the boost in executive processes in bilingual individuals increases in magnitude as the individuals age. This is because bilinguals keep higher levels of cognitive control, while the cognitive control of monolinguals decreases, beyond the age of 60.
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Cognitive Aging is very crucial for LKY!

 

[Ramseth]

It's just western insecurity complex against eastern inferiority complex.

First and foremost, all computer programming languages are in English.

To type Chinese or Japanese on computer, one still needs to know English first.

That's different from speaking fluency or writing proficiency of course.

However, as easterners have to learn some English without, westerners got worried.

Their academics come up with all kinds of theories there's no need.

Suddenly, westerners are defending eastern cultures. Just tell them :oIo:.

Just tell them, I can speak English better than you plus a few other languages. :oIo: understand?

 

[pocoyo]

The white supremacy in LKY is whiter than any ang mo can be in the world..

 

[flkyflky]

It's just western insecurity complex against eastern inferiority complex.

First and foremost, all computer programming languages are in English.

To type Chinese or Japanese on computer, one still needs to know English first.

That's different from speaking fluency or writing proficiency of course.

However, as easterners have to learn some English without, westerners got worried.

Their academics come up with all kinds of theories there's no need.

Suddenly, westerners are defending eastern cultures. Just tell them :oIo:.

Just tell them, I can speak English better than you plus a few other languages. :oIo: understand?

Computer language can be all over instantly.

You don't even need to change the compiler to make English vanish from them. Just a script to substitute the Ang Mo strings out, just like a converter. You can change C++ into Russian French Jap Arab or Hokkien in place of English.


#include < stdio.h>

void main()
{
printf("\nHello World\n");
}


Cantonese equivalent :

# 插列 《标准出入。首》
虚 主（）
{
印出("\n丢你老母\n");
}

 

[manokie]

Language and Science is dominated by Westerners

Don't be silly to think that Chinese can catch up within 500 years
Whatever they do now is just to build up on what the westerners have done

 

[shelltox]

we shall see. it was the west that caught up with the east druing the 19 th century bcos of the industrial revolution.