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Bilingualism Source Map :
Effects on Education
Source 3: Bilingualism for All: Two-Way
Immersion Education in the United States
The United States developed bilingual education programs due to the increase of non-native speakers
How to acquire a second language
Source 10: “Why in This Bilingual Classroom … Hablamos Más Español?”
Language Choice by Bilingual Science Students.
Shows the impact of bilingualism in the classroom
environment
Linguistic barriers affect students’ learning and creates
bias
Source 12: Degree of bilingualism modifies
executive control in Hispanic children in the USA.
Students with more balance in their language skills had better cognitive function and perform better on tests
Source 4: Identity, Community and Power in Bilingual Education
This article not only talks about how Immigrant parents should raise their children, but it talk about the best education a bilingual child should receive in order to financially succeed in America.
Effects on Economy
Source 7: New Americans: a guide to immigration since 1965
This article brings awareness to the bias that English-speakers have in America, and how bilinguals are having a hard time trying to land jobs in the economy.
How Bilinguals are landing jobs in America
Effects on Cognitive Skills/Abilities
Source 1: "Language Acquisition and Bilingualism: Consequences..."
-language has "consequence"
-context in which language is acquired impacts effects
-is yet to be fully understood
Source 6: The Consequences of Bilingualism for the Mind and the Brain
Bilinguals have the ability to ignore irrelevant information and can enhance executive control
Improved Executive Control
Source 11: "Speaking More Than One Language..."
-bilingualism has positive effects on
the brain, prolongs mental clarity
-study on senior citizen bilinguals:
better protects cognitive
functions in
Source 8: Bilingualism: Consequences for Language, Cognition, Development, and the Brain*
Young bilingual students are better test takers than their monolingual counterparts, ad clinicians should understand this.
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Source 9: The Relationship of Bilingualism to Cognitive Decline: The Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing
Researchers wanted to prove whether or not bilingualism always led to positive results, and their results were that bilingualism doesn't directly correlate with cognitive enhancements
Negative aspects of bilingualism
Definition of Bilingualism
Source 2: FAQ: Bilingualism.
-bilingual person: someone who speaks two languages
-how a second language is acquired
Source 5: Bilingual: Life and Reality
Describes Strategies on how to maneuver with second languages and how accents play a huge role
Tells a first-person story on how he made it through his situation and a lot of what his environment was like being a bilingual child