HOW IMPORTANT IS IT TO

LEARN A NEW LANGUAGE?

GROUP 3
Giovana M.
Marcus
Miriam
Jéssica
Thomas
Macaulay
 KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

Digital literacy and some knowledge of English are required to broaden

access to information, available mainly online
to become

Global citizenship
Universities have become valuable for their intellectual capital, an
important import and export product in the knowledge economy
Brazil occupies the
11th place among Of the total number of articles published in scientific
the countries that journals in 2020, 95% were written in English and only 1%
most publish articles in Spanish and Portuguese
internationally

large international companies

But why ?
Elsevier and Clarivate Analytics

• International impact factor indices of journals that have favored English for decades

• Reason: 60% of the articles published here are in Portuguese

But when it comes to how many times each text is cited by other researchers, the
country is doing poorly.
 SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

CEREBRAL CORTEX

HIPPOCAMPUS
 SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
• You can develop task management skills
Learning a new
• Makes you a more concentrated and focused language is
person taking care of
your health!

• Helps you make more rational decisions

• Improve your memory

• Makes you more perceptive

• You become more prolix in your own language

• You become more intelligent