Early Bilingualism Helps With Learning Languages Later in Life, Study Shows

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Corey Mitchell
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Education Week
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BE026873
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07-06-2018 3:53 PM
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2017
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Abstract
Bilingual people may be better equipped to learn new languages than those who only speak one language, according to a study published in the academic journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. The research points to a distinct language-learning benefit for people who grow up bilingual or learn another language at an early age. A team of researchers paired 13 bilingual college students who grew up in the United States with Mandarin-speaking parents, and learned both English and Mandarin at an early age, against a group of 16 monolingual college students, who spoke only English. The researchers studied Mandarin-English bilinguals because both of...
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English Learners
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