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The Chronicle -Being Bilingual: Beneficial Workout for the Brain
Speaking two languages confers lifelong cognitive rewards that spread far beyond the improved ability to communicate, a series of scientific findings has shown.
NPR - Being Bilingual May Boost Your Brain Power
Research suggests that the growing numbers of bilingual speakers may have an advantage that goes beyond communication: It turns out that being bilingual is also good for your brain.
Patricia Kuhl - The Linguistic Genius of Babies
Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another -- by listening to the humans around them and "taking statistics" on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show how 6-month-old babies use sophisticated reasoning to understand their world.
Sites LPE and talks about how learning another language at an early age is a great advantage for children.
CARLA Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition
Is one of the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI National Language Resource Centers, whose role is to improve the nation’s capacity to teach and learn foreign langugages.
Derry Journal – Bilingual kids do better in school
IRISH-LANGUAGE education professionals in Derry have welcomed the results of a new study which shows bilingual teaching improves children’s linguistic and mathemantical skills.
NPR – Parents Begin Spanish Lessions with Toddlers.
Can Preschool Children Be Taught a Second Language?
Jeanette Vos, Ed. D.
Bilingual Acquistion
Fred Genesee
Enhancing the Language Development of Young Children
Sandra Crosser, Ph.D.
Earlier is Better
Do You Want Your Children To Learn a Second Language? Start Them Before Puberty!
Linda Foust
Questions and Answers on Pre-school Second Language Learning
What Parents Want to Know About Foreign Language Immersion Programs
Tara W. Fortune, Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisitions, University of Minnesota
Diane J. Tedick, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Minnesota
ELIAS
Early Language and Intercultural Acquisition Studies