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Peer reviewedVilke, Mirjana – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1988
Discussion of a study of eight-year-olds' acquisition of English during formal classroom situations notes advantages in introducing linguistic familiarity at an early school age, including beneficial effect upon cognitive growth, prevention of the development of ethnocentric tendencies, and increased motivation to learn a second language.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, English (Second Language), Language Attitudes, Language Enrichment
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An attempt is made in the present paper to resolve inconsistencies between the results of recent studies which have reported that bilingualism is associated with positive cognitive consequences and earlier studies which suggested that bilingualism might adversely affect cognitive and scholastic progress. Because recent studies involved balanced…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Cognitive Development
