Neuroscience
The amazing baby brain says 'pas de problème' with bilingualism
People often say that babies are like little sponges —with their ability to soak up language quickly and easily.
Jul 30, 2019
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News tagged with bilingualism
Psychology & Psychiatry
Research rules out executive function advantage for some bilingual children
Bilingual children are on equal footing with monolingual children when it comes to regulating their behavior, planning and problem-solving, according to a new Florida International University study.
May 21, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Pediatricians should encourage parents to use their home language with their children, says researcher
Because of our unique demographics, Miami is poised to be the greatest bilingualism-promoter in the United States.
Mar 26, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Does being bilingual make children more focused? Study says no
Bilingual children do not have more advantages than monolingual children when it comes to executive function, which includes remembering instructions, controlling responses, and shifting swiftly between tasks, according to ...
Jan 18, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Research finds bilingual therapy vital to improving language disorders in dual-language children
New research has found that providing bilingual therapy is vital to improving developmental language disorders in dual-language children.
Nov 07, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Children take longer to learn two languages at once compared to just one—don't fret
Worldwide immigration patterns are increasing the number of children who grow up exposed to two languages, a circumstance that provides numerous benefits as well as some challenges. Because bilingual children's input is divided ...
Aug 23, 2018
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Neuroscience
Learning music or speaking another language leads to more efficient brains
Whether you learn to play a musical instrument or speak another language, you're training your brain to be more efficient, suggests a Baycrest study.
May 17, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study sheds new light on how bilinguals process language
Research led by a psychologist at the University of California, Riverside, shows that bilinguals regulate, or suppress, their native language when reading in a second language.
Apr 09, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Cognitive benefits of bilingualism overstated: study
The acquisition and active use of two languages has been suggested to train executive functions in the brain, such as focusing attention, suppressing interference from the environment, and switching from one task to another. ...
Mar 06, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study proposes practical solution to challenges faced by bilingual children
Researchers have made a major breakthrough in the assessment of language development among bilingual families and in the identification of those children who require extra support to improve their language skills.
Feb 22, 2018
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Multilingualism
Multilingualism is the act of using, or promoting the use of, multiple languages, either by an individual speaker or by a community of speakers. Multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. Multilingualism is becoming a social phenomenon governed by the needs of globalization and cultural openness. Thanks to the ease of access to information facilitated by the Internet, individuals' exposure to multiple languages is getting more and more frequent, and triggering therefore the need to acquire more and more languages.
People who speak more than one language are also called polyglots.
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