The Benefits of Bilingualism
TIME - Infant Development
Baby’s Incredible Brain Development
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985854,00.html
Baby’s Incredible Brain Development
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985854,00.html
Center for Applied Linguistics
Brain Research: Implications for Second Language Learning
http://www.cal.org/resource-center/briefs-digests/digests
Brain Research: Implications for Second Language Learning
http://www.cal.org/resource-center/briefs-digests/digests
News for Parents
Why, How, and When Should My Child Learn a Second Language?
http://www.newsforparents.org/expert_child_learn_second_language.html
Why, How, and When Should My Child Learn a Second Language?
http://www.newsforparents.org/expert_child_learn_second_language.html
Center for Applied Linguistics
Early Childhood World Language Learning:
Some General Points and Practical Recommendations
http://www.cal.org/areas-of-impact/world-languages
Early Childhood World Language Learning:
Some General Points and Practical Recommendations
http://www.cal.org/areas-of-impact/world-languages
Time Magazine
How the Brain Benefits From Being Bilingual
July 18, 2013
How the Brain Benefits From Being Bilingual
July 18, 2013
"Never mind how well spoken you might be now, you will never again be as adept with languages as the day you were born. Indeed, the youngest person in any room is almost always the best linguist there too. There are 6,800 languages in the world, and since you can’t know where you’ll be born, you have to pop from the womb to be able to speak any one of them. That talent fades fast — as early as nine months after birth, some of our language synapses start getting pruned away. But well into your grammar-school years, your ability to learn a second — or third or fourth — language is still remarkable.
That, it turns out, is very good for the brain. New studies are showing that a multilingual brain is nimbler, quicker, better able to deal with ambiguities, resolve conflicts and even resist Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia longer."
That, it turns out, is very good for the brain. New studies are showing that a multilingual brain is nimbler, quicker, better able to deal with ambiguities, resolve conflicts and even resist Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia longer."
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http://science.time.com/2013/07/18/how-the-brain-benefits-from-being-bilingual/
http://science.time.com/2013/07/18/how-the-brain-benefits-from-being-bilingual/
Time Magazine
The Power of the Bilingual Brain
July 29, 2013
The Power of the Bilingual Brain
July 29, 2013
"The idea behind the program has less to do with the usual talk about a globalizing world and America's need to become a polyglot nation if it's going to compete effectively with China and other rising economies--though that's part of it--and more to do with the nimble minds of the boys and girls doing the learning. Research is increasingly showing that the brains of people who know two or more languages are different from those who know just one--and those differences are all for the better. Multilingual people, studies show, are better at reasoning, at multitasking, at grasping and reconciling conflicting ideas. They work faster and expend less energy doing so, and as they age, they retain their cognitive faculties longer, delaying the onset of dementia and even full-blown Alzheimer's disease.
A bilingual brain is not necessarily a smarter brain, but it is proving to be a more flexible, more resourceful one. In a polyglot world, that's a lesson that a largely monoglot country like the U.S. ignores at its peril. "Monolingualism," says Gregg Roberts, a language-immersion specialist with the Utah state office of education, "is the illiteracy of the 21st century."
A bilingual brain is not necessarily a smarter brain, but it is proving to be a more flexible, more resourceful one. In a polyglot world, that's a lesson that a largely monoglot country like the U.S. ignores at its peril. "Monolingualism," says Gregg Roberts, a language-immersion specialist with the Utah state office of education, "is the illiteracy of the 21st century."
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http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2147707,00.html
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2147707,00.html
The New York Times
The Sunday Review, Opinion page: Why Bilinguals are Smarter
March 17, 2012
The Sunday Review, Opinion page: Why Bilinguals are Smarter
March 17, 2012
"Speaking two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalized world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that the advantages of bilingualism are even more fundamental than being able to converse with a wider range of people. Being bilingual, it turns out, makes you smarter. It can have a profound effect on your brain, improving cognitive skills not related to language and even shielding against dementia in old age."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-benefits-of-bilingualism.html?_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-benefits-of-bilingualism.html?_r=0
The New York Times
Science page: The Bilingual Advantage
May 30, 2011
Science page: The Bilingual Advantage
May 30, 2011
"If you have two languages and you use them regularly, the way the brain’s networks work is that every time you speak, both languages pop up and the executive control system has to sort through everything and attend to what’s relevant in the moment. Therefore the bilinguals use that system more, and it’s that regular use that makes that system more efficient."
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/science/31conversation.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/science/31conversation.html