Published on 24/03/11
Researcher Reza KormiNouri has studied bilingual children's
development during the first years in school. His last study shows that
bilingual children have a linguistic head start when they first go to
school, but fall behind as they get older.
It's surprising because until now we believed it was the other way around: that bilingual children do worse in the first years of school but then catch up, said KormiNouri. The results of his study were published yesterday in the 'Bilingualism: Language and Cognition' journal. Read more... Read more...
It's surprising because until now we believed it was the other way around: that bilingual children do worse in the first years of school but then catch up, said KormiNouri. The results of his study were published yesterday in the 'Bilingualism: Language and Cognition' journal. Read more... Read more...