Research has shown that there are many benefits to being able to speak more than one language. Learning multiple languages challenges the brain and improves cognitive and social-emotional development, learning, and the chances for long-term success. The US Department of Education put together an in...
Acquisition of multiple languages among children of immigrant families: parents' role in the home-school language pendulum, supporting immigrant children's language learning.(ERIC Document Reproduction Service No.ED459622).Mushi, S. L. P. (2002). Acquisition of multiple languages among children of ...
It is rightly said that understand to be understood. Thus learning new languages is an indirect attempt to understand people from foreign lands. In the global community, there is a great intermix of races, caste, color, religion, and nations. Everyone has his/her own mother tongue but we ca...
Learning a new language puts extra cognitive strain on children. This strain affects children differently than would an extra math course in school. According to Psychology Professor Erika Hoff, author of the book “Language Development,” learning multiple languages simultaneously limits the number of ...
Some parents seem wary of second-language exposure for theiryoung children, Kinzler commented. Yet, in addition to learning another language, theirchildrenmight unintentionally be getting intensive training in perspective taking, which could make them better communicators in any language....
One of the key advantages of raising multilingual children is the enhancement of cognitive skills. Learning multiple languages exercises the brain, promoting better memory retention, and sharpening critical thinking abilities. As your child navigates between languages, they are essentially giving their brai...
Learning verbs is an important part of learning one’s native language. Prior studies have shown that children younger than 5 years can have difficulty in learning and extending new verbs. The current study extended these studies by showing children multiple events that can be compared during learn...
Although Chomsky’s claim was that children would represent the rule in hierarchical terms, such as “Move the auxiliary verb or modal positioned in Infl in the main clause to C,” he pointed out that if children were to use general learning mechanisms to analyze the input sentences, they mi...
Children from minority-language backgrounds have multiple sites of learning: home, community, mainstream school, and in some cases complementary school whe... C Kenner,M Ruby - 《Journal of Early Childhood Literacy》 被引量: 11发表: 2012年 Multiculturalism with in a bilingual framework: language,...
As easy as acquiring multiple languages is for small children, the single most important factor in language learning is the quantity of spoken language addressed to the child. So, if you worry that you aren't providing enough, here are a few tricks to boost your superhero's inherent powers....