Two Languages Better Than One for Kids’ Brains: Study
Bilingual children excel at problem-solving, creative thinking, research suggests.
Children who speak more than one language seem to have a learning advantage: Being bilingual can improve children’s problem-solving skills and creative thinking, a new study suggests.
The mental sharpness needed to switch between two languages may develop skills that boost other types of thinking, explained researchers from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.
“Bilingualism is now largely seen as being beneficial to children but there remains a view that it can be confusing, and so potentially detrimental to them,” study leader Fraser Lauchlan, a lecturer at the University of Strathclyde’s School of Psychological Sciences & Health, said in a university news