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Languages,
journalism
help SAT scores
Students who want to do better on college entrance exams should consider taking foreign language and journalism-style writing classes. That’s the advice that can be drawn from two articles in the October issue of PTA Today, the National Parent-Teacher Association’s magazine.
“Studies have shown that children who begin to master another language at an early age score higher on tests of verbal intelligence and mental flexibility,” said Myriam Met, foreign language coordinator in Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools, writing in the PTA’s magazine.
In another study, the College Board reported that students who had taken a foreign language for five years or more scored better on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) than those who had taken little or no foreign language, according to Ms. Met. Five years of foreign language study was also found to be more closely related to higher SAT scores than five years of any other academic subject.
Ms. Met has discovered that many of the foreign language pro
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