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A plea for bilinguality

A plea for bilinguality. Natalie Hanssen University International Club (UIC) AU 30 January 2013. Research shows:. Bilingual brain looks different in brain scan Bilingual children understand that language is just a collection of agreements ( UvT )

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A plea for bilinguality

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  1. A pleaforbilinguality Natalie Hanssen University International Club (UIC) AU 30 January 2013

  2. Research shows: • Bilingualbrainlooks different in brain scan • Bilingualchildrenunderstandthatlanguage is just a collection of agreements (UvT) • BilingualChildrenknow more aboutlanguage in general and thereforlearnforeignlanguageseasier (theirwholelife) • Learn to readquicker • Richerexpression (durun)

  3. Wait – differencebetweensimultanouslyorsuccessivelylearninglanguages (thoughnotthat big)

  4. More generaladvantages • Biggerworkingmemory and more focus • Switch, surpress, filter, noisereduction • Attention and reaction speed (experiment) • (Bialystok) Effect onalzheimer’s • Filtering and switching provides cognitive reserves

  5. Disadvantages • Speakingmightcome later • Interference – passes usually • Bored in school, lessattention, worsegrades • (Bialystok) Slightly smaller vocabulary in bothlanguages

  6. The plea. Or: the practice • Well, of coursetheyspeak more languages! • Cognitiveadvantages (flip back)

  7. Meanwhile in Europe • In bilingualcountriessuch as BelgiumorSwitserlandit is more common to bebilingual • ‘Immersion’ educationBelgium. Goodor bad? • (VUB fmri) Not school- but home language suffers! • More focus on home languageforforeignchildren! (advise in NL or DK is usuallyopposite) No proof! • Especially important forlesseducatedparents • Also: teachers more positiveabout ‘higherstatus’language

  8. Trythis at home! • Onlynative speaker canproperlyteach (otherwise, betterfind a school) • OPOL-model • ML@H

  9. The end

  10. List of references • Ellen Bialystok, Canadian psychologist,  • Nadia Eversteijn, Universiteit van Tilburg (Holland), • Peter Indefrey, researcher at F.C. Donders Centrum voor Cognitieve Neuro-Imaging, Nijmegen, Holland • Katrien Mondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel , Belgium • Saskia Visser, language expert, Groningse Wetenschapswinkel

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