The Importance Of Children Learning Multiple Languages
, associate professor and director of the Latino-Latin American Studies program in the College of Arts and Sciences, was featured in the Spectrum News story 鈥.鈥 The article highlights the importance of elementary school students learning to speak two languages, in order to learn more about cultures other than their own. Garc铆a-Calder贸n says, 鈥淚鈥檝e had both personal friends and students who have expressed their concern, 鈥業鈥檓 losing the language of my family,鈥 when I hear that, I feel that they think they鈥檙e losing a bit of their identity.鈥