If you have children of school age, probably already asked about the best time to encourage the learning of a foreign language, is not it?

 

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If you have children of school age, probably already asked about the best time to encourage the learning of a foreign language, is not it? This is an issue that often afflicts several parents around the world. As much as you know that the mastery of a second language is important at any stage of life when you make a decision that involves the family always hits that extra concern. But, then, will it be to put my son in a bilingual school so babies can not stop literacy and learning a second language itself? And that doubt really is very common, after all, the myth that teaching 2 languages can confuse babies and children persisted for many years.

Fortunately, however, that misunderstanding was already more than clarified. So much that, at present, learning a foreign language even in early childhood is viewed with good eyes by specialists in child behavior. Along the way, especially in the United States, many studies on this subject have been developed over the years show that bilingualism from a young age can favor the development of children. What about opening the doors of the world for your child to enroll in a bilingual school from the baby? Check why you should make this investment:  
source Research on bilingualism. Actually, that idea that learning 2 languages at the same time could confuse babies and children is not totally unfounded. This is because when a child communicates in a certain language, his brain does not cancel out the other language he also knows. That is, if a venezolano child enters a baby into a bilingual school that also teaches reading in English when communicating in español, the brain does not completely deactivate English. This condition of the brain can, in fact, cause some interference in the systems responsible for literacy and communication. But if before it was seen as a problem, today it is considered a benefit! For scientists, this interference ends up forcing the brain to resolve the internal conflict caused by communication in different languages, which works as an excellent cognitive exercise that will be applied to other situations in the child's life.  
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A survey recently published by the Institute of Brain and Learning Sciences of the University of Washington, USA, showed that bilingualism is an advantage not only for adults. Barely 11 months old, when they start saying the first words, bilingual babies stimulate parts of the brain that monolinguals (those who speak only one language) do not usually activate - like the perception and differentiation of sounds from different languages.

  So nothing to be afraid of putting your child in a bilingual school, ok? Bilingual literacy only has to contribute to the development of the child, improving his intelligence and training his brain to deal with adverse situations at any stage of life.   The advantages of the bilingual school. So that you have no more doubts about whether or not to put your child in a bilingual school in early childhood, here are some of the main advantages that learning 2 languages brings for babies. Then we go there?  
source Improves the executive function of the brain.

This is one of the most important benefits that your child will develop when starting early in a bilingual school. Recalling that the executive function is responsible for various activities of our brain, ranging from the resolution of problems and conflicts, through planning to reach concentration and attention.

 

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Bilingual babies are considered cognitively more flexible than monolingual children.
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By simultaneously learning 2 languages, babies' brains become capable of performing more than one task at the same time. And all this contributes to the child maintaining the focus, dispersing and distracting less, as well as managing to change the attention from one thing to another without losing or forgetting information. Bilingual children are also more efficient than monolingual children when it comes to making decisions or solving logical problems.
 

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To be continued...
Source of information

• https://neurosciencenews.com/cognition-neurodevelopment-bilingualism-3569/
• https://www.babycenter.com/0_raising-a-bilingual-child-the-top-five-myths_10340869.bc
• https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/bilingual-speakers-time-different-people-one-language-study-swedish-spanish-a7715146.html
• https://www.brainscape.com/blog/2015/06/when-should-you-start-learning-second-language/

 

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