A new study has shown how bilingualism benefits children in the classroom.
“The Edinburgh University research builds on previous studies showing that speakers of two languages find it easier to block out potential distractions, enabling them to focus better on a range of tasks.
It also reveals that bilinguals may take longer to disengage from the task they are working on, although researchers stress that they are only a split second slower than monolinguals in switching attention to a new task. […]”
Read the entire article here (© TES, 27 October 2009).
