Cognitive Benefits of Being Bilingual for Young Children: A Literature Review

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220105.120How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Bilingual; Young children; Cognitive Benefit

Abstract

Being bilingual is prevalent and is on the rise worldwide. Although there were some people discussing the null result of being bilingual in cognitive aspects (executive functions, metacognition), there were lots of investigations demonstrating that being bilingual exhibited many aspects of benefits in cognitive development for young children. Frequently, articles and investigations paid attention to one benefit or phenomenon in this area. This review article aims to summarize and examine three main bilingual cognitive benefits in executive functions (inhibitory control, working memory, shifting), enhanced language skills, and neurological changes for young children. In conclusion, we find that being bilingual leads to positive and beneficial results than null results.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Weishuang Guo
AU  - Shushi Yao
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/01/17
TI  - Cognitive Benefits of Being Bilingual for Young Children: A Literature Review
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Social Development and Media Communication (SDMC 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 654
EP  - 660
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220105.120
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220105.120
ID  - Guo2022
ER  -