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Advantages of Bilingual Children.
Date Submitted: 12/15/2001 05:12:11
Category: / Social Sciences / Education
Length: 9 pages (2591 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Education
Length: 9 pages (2591 words)
"Bilingualism is to intelligence as food is to human fitness....A simple statement about bilingualism and intelligence is as impossible as prescribing one simple food for human survival" (Baker 1). For 30 years experts have had ongoing discussions concerning the bilingual child and his mental abilities relating to intelligence and education. Originally, experts believed that a bilingual person could not be an intellectual, since he/she was carrying two or more languages in their head. Consensus has …
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