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Today's Date is June 28, 2025
The IES Language Foundation is a National 501(C) 3 Non-Profit organization dedicated to making available, throughout the world, the best possible methodologies for enabling children to acquire a second language. At the same time we seek to make their exposure to second languages and cultures a positive and enjoyable experience.
IES is the largest independent children’s second language organization in the U.S. and offers programs through and with the cooperation of several thousand public and private schools throughout the country. We provide skilled teachers and a carefully designed curriculum of classroom lesson plans with books and tapes for home reinforcement.
IES methods recreate a process of language acquisition, which is similar to the way children learn their primary language. IES teaches through games, poems, songs and activities, by focusing on listening and speaking first. Reading and writing come later with further language study.
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NEWS
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Learn Early - Learn Better |
September 25, 2000 |
Many experts in the field of foreign languages have long maintained that those who begin learning a second language at an early age are better language learners. Linguists and neuro-biologists have both conducted research indicating that children have a greater capacity to learn and maintain language ability than adult learners. These early experiences also represent the skills most likely to stay with an individual for life.
American Council on the
Teaching of Foreign Languages, Inc.
ACTFL Newsletter
Winter 1998
article by June H. Hicks
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