Your daughter is starting first grade, and you are trying to decide if you want to enroll her in an English-only school or in one of the new bilingual charter schools. After you review the neurolinguistics literature, which school will you choose and why? Justify your decision based neurolinguistic research evidence.
What will be an ideal response?
Students may choose either alternative, but they must use research evidence to support their choice; most likely, they will select the bilingual education. Young children do not show the benefits of a bilingual education, but they also do not show any deficits due to being bilingual. The benefits come later in life, with research showing that the brain can better focus on relevant information and ignore distractions. Also, bilingual children and teens are better at sorting tasks and can process more information, more rapidly. In addition, those who speak more than one language are able to process information more rapidly when their working memory is overloaded. The advantage to bilingualism increases as one ages.
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