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What every policy maker needs to know about cognitive benefits of bilingualism
Introduction The Manifesto for Languages produced by the APPG (All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Languages 2014) argued that the UK needs to have a strategy for ‘national recovery in language learning’. The Manifesto calls for a set of important commitments to be made by the political parties in the next general election, which would form a Framework for National Recovery in Language Learning. In this document it is suggested that £48 billion could be added to the UK economy if ‘national competence in languages is revived’. The Manifesto exposes the severity of language learning decline at different levels.