Introduce Your Child to a Foreign Language! Here’s One Reason Why.
As a career language teacher, I have read all sorts of research that strongly supports introducing children to foreign languages. Now that my oldest child has officially entered our local public school system, I’m collecting research and study results to pass along to the school board. Yes, I’ll probably be a pest. I desperately want a high-quality, well-articulated foreign language program in my sons’ schools. Yesterday.
Every now and then, I’ll share a little tidbit of research with you about why we MUST make early foreign language education a priority and a reality. Today’s “reason to introduce your child to a foreign language” comes to you compliments of Beth Butler, founder of the BOCA BETH program:
“Dr. Ellen Bialystok, York University, conducted a study on child language acquisition. The study showed that the children who received instruction in two languages scored twice as high on language tests than their monolingual peers. These bilingual children also read sooner and demonstrated advanced problem solving capabilities. (Dr Ellen Bialystok, 2001) This same woman and her research team out of the Rotman Research Institute just reported January 2007 that bilingualism can help delay the onset of dementia by four years.”
How ’bout that? Some great news for my kids and for me, too. I’ll gladly delay dementia for a few years!
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