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Bilingual kids not slowed by second tongue
Thursday, 7 November 2002
bilingual children
Early and intense exposure to a second language is best for brain
development
Learning a second language does not slow language development in
children, according to a study presented to an American neuroscience
conference.
In fact, the earlier and more intensively the languages are
introduced, the better.
The study, by researchers at the Department of Psychological and Brain
Science at Dartmouth College, in the USA, looked at children who had
been exposed to different combinations of languages at different ages
and in different environmental settings.
"We found that if children are exposed to two languages from a very
early age, they will essentially grow as if there were two
mono-linguals housed in one brain," Professor Laura-Ann Petitto told
delegates. "This will occur without any of the dreaded 'language
contamination' often attributed to early bilingual exposure."
Scientists have long debated whether a child's language ability is
hindered by learning two languages at the same time from an early age.
Some experts argue that a second language should only be introduced
after the child has a full grasp of a primary language.
Professor Petitto's findings, produced with graduate student Ioulia
Kovelman, were presented at the Society for Neuroscience's annual
meeting held in Orlando, Florida this week.
The researchers looked at 15 bilingual children exposed to two
languages from varying ages. Each age group of young bilinguals was at
a different stage in child brain development.
The researchers split the children into four groups depending on when
intensive exposure to the second language began: at birth, between the
ages of two to three, four to six years, and seven to nine years.
This meant the researchers were able to match the time of bilingual
language exposure to key stages of brain development. "We anchor[ed]
our findings in the biology of the way the brain grows," she said.
The children spoke various combinations of languages, including
Spanish and French, French and English, Russian and French and sign
language and French.
To obtain a wider cross section, the researchers used children who had
been exposed to their second language in different places at home, a
new language community, or in an instructional classroom setting.
"We wanted to study how all of the children's basic knowledge of their
two languages developed over time and thus, in our attempt to be as
comprehensive as possible, we examined children across multiple
languages, ages and contexts," she said.
The results found something many school students struggling with
French could tell you: late exposure to a second language, coupled
with restricted input such as in a classroom may never allow a
child full mastery in that language.
But don't panic if you want to introduce your child to a second
language later, she said: all they need is extensive exposure to both
languages.
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