Question

What is the author's point of view in the passage?


third-person omniscient


second-person


first-person


third-person limited
The Student News Site of King Middle School

Learning Another Language: Worth the Work?

1 Last week, our school hosted an assembly for 8th graders to share information about what life will be like next year when we go to high school. After the assembly, I was really revved up about next year, but when I talked to some other students, they seemed a little disappointed. You see, in high school, all students are required to take at least two years of a foreign language in order to graduate. Some students feel that this policy is unfair. However, I think the language policy is a good idea, and that's not just because I love learning Spanish! In this article, I'd like to share some of the benefits of being able to speak another language. I hope that after reading this, some of my fellow students will begin to feel the same way, too.

An image shows the word yes written in ten different languages

The Benefits

2 After the assembly last week, I decided to do a little research about language learning. I discovered there are a lot of good reasons to learn another language. First, learning another language can help you communicate with people from different backgrounds and cultures. Since I first started studying Spanish in middle school, I've become more aware of how linguistically diverse the United States is. In 1980, about 23 million people spoke a language other than English at home, but now almost 60 million people do. There were 26 million more Spanish speakers in 2010 than there were 30 years before, and other languages are being spoken more and more frequently, such as Vietnamese and Russian.

3 Learning another language could also help you get smarter. Research shows that learning and speaking another language positively affects the brain. Some findings indicate that language learning can improve thinking and reasoning skills. When people learn another language, they get better at problem solving and thinking about abstract concepts. It just might be that if you keep learning another language, you'll also learn more in other classe

Answer 1

first-person

The narrator uses "I" and shares personal feelings, experiences, and opinions (e.g., "I was really revved up," "I think," "I'd like"), which indicates a first-person point of view.