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The Pros And Cons Of Being Bilingual

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My hypothesis is that being bilingual makes you a better student than a non bilingual student. The believe that knowing two languages was not good for children because it made them confuse. It’s been proven that this is wrong because it actually makes them concentrate better in school. The growth of children who are bilingual has increased in the years 2014-2015 to estimated 4.6 million in public schools. Furthermore, the study conducted was to show how know to languages helps school performance. Therefore, 50 Antelope valley college students received a survey that had eleven questions. Some of the questions asked about how well are they doing in school. All of the participants needed to be bilingual for the study to show their success rate in school. The study was not a success because of the bias in the researcher. In addition, there could’ve been better questions asked in the survey. The participants should’ve also been non bilingual so there could’ve been a comparison within the …show more content…

Language is very important because it helps us communicate with others. Knowing two languages Throughout decades scientist believe that there was only one section of the brain that dealt with language , but that is wrong there are multiple sections of the brain that deal with language (Ratey,2002). In schools many teachers believed that teaching a second language was going to confuse the student and was going to make them do bad in school. This has been prove to be the opposite, learning a second language actually helps students. However, there is a ‘‘hold-back’’ which deal with the appropriate time for infants to start learning a second language and what should they first expose, which carries additional presuppositions about the direction that conceptual mapping and/or transfer of knowledge in human learning obligatorily flows (Petitto, L. 2009).The percentage of public school students in the United States who were ELLs was higher in

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