Tag: bilingualbenefits
No Downside for Bilingual Kids
A first-of-its kind study in U.S.-born children from Spanish-speaking families has found that minority language exposure does not threaten the acquisition of English by children in the U.S. and that there is no trade-off...
Seal of Biliteracy Goes Nationwide
For the first time since its inception, all 50 states and the District of Columbia are or have begun working toward implementing a state Seal of Biliteracy program, according to the recently released 2020...
Research Reveals Children’s Linguistic Superpower
Infants and young children have brains with a linguistic superpower, according to Georgetown University Medical Center neuroscientists, who found that unlike adults who use a specific areas in one or the other of their...
Young Bilingual Brains May Age Better
Bilingual children and adolescents may grow up with more grey matter, according to a new study published in Brain Structure and Function, in which an international team of academics led by the UK’s University...
Research Examines the Economic Benefits of Bilingualism
Ingrid T. Colón gathers the financial evidence to support multilingualism
"fluent bilinguals earned more than $5,400 annually than their monolingual peers"
Helping students retain and strengthen their home language affords them many cognitive, social and...
Putting the Benefits of Bilingualism into Practice
The National Science Foundation's Partnerships in International Research and Education (NSF PIRE) has awarded a $5 million dollar grant over five years to help translate the scientific benefits of language learning from the lab...