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Title | Article: For Kids, Two Languages Can Be as Easy as One |
Body | From http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090709/hl_hsn/forkidstwolanguagescanbeaseasyasone For Kids, Two Languages Can Be as Easy as One By Peter West July 9, 2009 European researchers are contesting the assumption that bilingual toddlers have more trouble learning language skills than children who know just one language. "While the remarkable performance of children acquiring one language is impressive, many children acquire more than one language simultaneously," said study author Agnes Melinda Kovacs, a research fellow at the International School for Advanced Studies, in Trieste, Italy. "As bilingual children presumably have to learn roughly twice as much as their monolingual peers [because they learn two languages instead of one], one would expect their language acquisition to be somewhat delayed. However, bilinguals pass the language development milestones at the same ages as their monolingual peers." Read the full article at http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090709/hl_hsn/forkidstwolanguagescanbeaseasyasone |
Source | Yahoo! News |
Inputdate | 2009-07-18 06:30:30 |
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Publishdate | 2009-07-20 00:00:00 |
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