bilingualism
26/07/2019 - 14:41
The Wonder school, located within one of Tel Aviv’s historic buildings, is one of Israel’s most expensive kindergartens. It charges about... →
27/11/2018 - 14:51
“At this age, children don’t learn a language – they acquire it,” says the school’s director Carmen Rampersad. It seems to sum up the... →
30/03/2017 - 15:54
Despite all the fuss that has been made about the ‘bilingual advantage’, most researchers have moved on from the simplistic ‘is there an... →
11/12/2015 - 16:07
Underlying these linguistic demarcations was my need to stay camouflaged whatever the backdrop. On trips to England to visit my mother’s... →
17/02/2015 - 14:44
For the first half of the twentieth century, researchers actually thought that bilingualism put a child at a disadvantage, something that... →
02/07/2014 - 14:04
The participants were given an intelligence test in 1947 at age 11 years and retested in their early 70s, between 2008 and 2010. 262... →
04/06/2014 - 12:33
Strong effects
The findings indicate that those who spoke two or more languages had significantly better cognitive abilities compared to... →