• Corpus ID: 18090473

Bilingual Children's Mother Tongue: Why Is It Important for Education?

@inproceedings{Cummins2009BilingualCM,
  title={Bilingual Children's Mother Tongue: Why Is It Important for Education?},
  author={Jim Cummins},
  year={2009}
}

• J. Cummins
• Published 2009
• Economics

One aspect of globalization that has important implications for educators is the increasing movement of people from one country to another. Population mobility is caused by many factors: desire for better economic conditions, the need for labour in many countries that are experiencing low birthrates, a constant flow of refugees resulting from conflicts between groups, oppression of one group by another, or ecological disasters. Economic integration within the EU also encourages the free movement of workers and their families among EU member countries. The fact that travel between countries is now fast and efficient (most of the time) obviously facilitates population mobility.