Educational Psychology / Unit 9 EDP 0810 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Bilingualism
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The idea
Most of the world's children are bilingual. Balanced bilinguals gain metalinguistic awareness, attention to language as an object of thought, and the more fully bilingual the child, the stronger it is.
In practice
A bilingual child notices that a word's link to its meaning is arbitrary.
Where people slip
A broader bilingual advantage is contested; a large review found none after correcting for bias.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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