Why early bilingual education matters: discover how young children benefit cognitively, socially and emotionally from ...

Before the 1950s, prevailing research indicated that bilingualism created a disadvantage for children. Since then, many studies have found that not only were those concerns unfounded but that ...

It was disheartening to see the suggestion that bilingualism is an area of study in which researchers are only recently “beginning to chip away at some long-held notions about second-language ...

Let’s get a cortadito. This is a sentence Ryan Pontier would very likely have never spoken growing up in central New Jersey. It is now something he says all of the time as a fluent speaker of Spanish ...

Akamatsu, C. T. & Mayer, C. (1999) Bilingual-bicultural models of literacy education for deaf students: considering the claims. Journal of deaf studies and deaf ...

Post written by François Grosjean. When I was preparing my first book on bilingualism some thirty years ago, I was confronted with opposing views on the effect of bilingualism on children. Studies in ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Two Albuquerque Public Schools made history and are now getting special recognition for their proficiency in the Navajo language. Shock and excitement is what those APS ...

People who are bilingual throughout their lives, and use dual languages in everyday life, have some protection against cognitive impairment, a new study finds. Researchers went door-to-door in ...

Canada’s official bilingualism is often portrayed as an expensive government program that drains taxpayer dollars. But this ...

In San Jose, Spanish isn’t optional. It’s essential. Hospitals, banks—most public-facing companies—aren’t hiring Spanish-speaking workers for diversity’s sake. They’re hiring them because they need ...