There is widespread international recognition of the efficacy of bilingual education for children, including those from minority language backgrounds (Cummins 2000), with previous research finding enhanced cognitive abilities (Thomas and Collier 1997; Garcia 2009), grade level proficiency in both languages...
1. Introduction The bilingual child (2;8,7, i.e., years;months,days), raised in Germany with Catalan and German simultaneously at home, and her Catalan caregiver are preparing an afternoon snack and drink for some baby dolls who have just woken up from a nap: Example (1) Adult: i a...
More general studies on the bilingual brain investigating polyglots, multi-linguals and bilinguals have revealed evidence of individual differences in language learning and brain processing based on working memory capacity, intelligence, different musical abilities, language exposure and age of acquisition ...