Hola Arkansas – Veronica Carter
“According to the U.S. Department of Education, a new research says kids who learn new languages will have better job prospects as adults. A new study of bilingual and monolingual toddlers could be reason for parents to share this story in two languages. Research in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology has shown that children learning two languages perform better at certain problem-solving tasks than do their monolingual peers. Cristina Crivello, a Ph.D. student at Concordia University in Montreal who led the study, said one and a half year old bilingual children have abilities that are beneficial for people at any age. “It’s these specific cognitive abilities, like selective attention and cognitive flexibility, where they have to focus on relevant information and ignore distracting information,” she said.”(more)