
Bonus: ReThinking with Adam Grant
TED Radio Hour
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Learning to Code in a Foreign Language?
The idea that schools could allow students to fulfill a foreign language requirement by taking coding makes so much sense in light of your data. All of the 20 most popular coding languages are written in English. In our Chinese English bilinguals, their Chinese proficiency was the strongest predictor of their ability to produce code. Whereas debugging relied more heavily on English skills.
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