Bilingualism is more common than ever before. According to Ecole Bilingue de Berkeley (EB), today more of the world’s population is bilingual or multilingual than monolingual. Anyone can benefit from ...

In a nutshell Bilinguals with Alzheimer’s showed larger hippocampal volumes, a brain region critical for memory, compared to ...

Being bilingual or multilingual has been proven to have countless beneficial impacts on the brains of those who speak more ...

However, beyond the practical benefits of bilingualism lies a profound impact on cerebral growth and cognitive abilities, both in children and adults. Research conducted by esteemed institutions ...

But the benefits of bilingualism far outweigh these costs. The extensive use of executive functions is reflected in the brain activity of bilinguals: Brain regions in the prefrontal cortex of the ...

Parents can – and often do – create these programs in their local schools by organizing parents, building a case for a dual language program, and convincing school administrators and teachers about ...

Yet experts warn we could face a crisis in foreign language education with a monocultural mindset of "English is enough". This mentality is turning multilingual students into monolingual English ...

My research interests center on early cognitive and language development. A first area of research concerns the cognitive benefits of bilingualism during the first years of life (NSERC Discovery Grant ...

That’s one of the many advantages of bilingualism, which appears to have benefits along the entire lifespan. Some researchers point to adaptability in babies who have been exposed to two languages ...