Bilingual children do better in class
New research carried out in Cambridge has found that bilingual children are able to perform better in noisy classrooms with lots of distractions, than those who only speak one language.
Bilingual children focus better in the classroom
Research carried out in Cambridge has discovered that bilingual children are able to perform better in noisy classrooms with lots of distractions, than those who only speak one language.
The experts behind the study, which looked at children between the age of 7 and 10, discovered that bilingual children could focus more on tasks and as a result performed better.
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