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| Title | Bilingual Babies Are Precocious Decision-makers |
| Body | From http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13489730&fsrc=rss Twice blessed: Bilingual babies are precocious decision-makers April 16, 2009 A study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences may help resolve the question of whether to teach young children a second language by getting to the nub of what is going on in a bilingual child’s brain, how a second language affects the way he thinks, and thus in what circumstances being bilingual may be helpful. Agnes Kovacs and Jacques Mehler at the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste say that some aspects of the cognitive development of infants raised in a bilingual household must be undergoing acceleration in order to manage which of the two languages they are dealing with. Read the full article at http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13489730&fsrc=rss . |
| Source | The Economist |
| Inputdate | 2009-05-10 10:02:19 |
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