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The benefits of a bilingual brain - Coggle Diagram
The benefits of a bilingual brain
Childrens
Children learn languages more easily because the plasticity of their developing brains helps them to use both hemispheres in language acquisition.
Adults
Meanwhile, in most adults, the language is limited to only one hemisphere. most of the time, the left one. A new, investigations suggest, that as an adult, is more difficult to learn a new language because they use their left hemisphere
Benefits
The benefits are many and some are even visible, such as a higher density of gray matter that contains most neurons and synapses.
More activity in certain areas when speaking a second language.
Also, help delay the onset of diseases such as Alzheimer's and dementia for up to five years.
The right
While the right hemisphere is more active in emotional and social processes
The left
The left hemisphere of the brain is know as dominant and analytical in logical processes.
What kind of bilingual person are you?
Regina:
I'm more a bilinguals as adult, because in my chilhood I didn't learn a good english, my school don´t have a good class of english, so today I´m have a logical process more than a social or emotional processes.
Grecia:
I´m a bilingual as adult because I learned the leanguage as a second lenguage, and I´m never practice, only in the school.
Luisa:
I'm a back-to-back bilingual person because I learned it from school but I get better in my exchange year, bilingualism affected positively in my life because I had the opportunity to learn about the American culture and have more friends in other countries *
How do you think bilingualism has affected positively in your life?
It has affected how we can communicate with more people, how it makes it easier for us to understand more subjects, more articles, tasks, to be able to travel without the fear of no knowing how can will communicate, the possibilitie of going on an exchange or to live in another country.
Bilingual person types
Simultaneous bilingualism:
learn two linguistic codes at the same time (baby)
Back-to-back bilingual:
speak one language in-home and another in school (teen)
Bilingual as adults:
who learned a second language through their first language