martes, 9 de septiembre de 2014

Cognitive benefits of learning a foreign language.

Read the article, by Alison Mackey, "What happens in the brain when you learn a language?", in The Guardian online.

An extract from Alison Mackey´s article:

Learning a foreign language can increase the size of your brain. This is what Swedish scientists discovered when they used brain scans to monitor what happens when someone learns a second language.


Read the article, by Catherine Griffin (in http://www.scienceworldreport.com/),"Being Exposed to Two Languages May Increase Cognitive Benefits in Babies".
A fragment from the article: 
Being exposed to two languages in infancy may not just be good for learning a second language. It also may help children in the future. Scientists have found that infants exposed to two languages recognized familiar images far faster and paid attention to novel images far more when compared to monolingual infants.


Image source: Albermale County Public Schools [extracted from Council for Early Child Development].




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