Does Bilingualism Improve Cognitive Functions? Kaining (Michael) Cui Bilingualism has long been an interesting topic in cognitive psychology research. The fact that bilinguals grew up in a unique and different language as well as social environment, potentially has a substantial effect on reading, language perception, ambiguity resolution, and many other language and cognitive process that are beyond language itself. Since the 1960s or even earlier, scientists have been studying the effects of
Mother Tongue Based Multilingual Education has been encouraged by United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to early childhood and primary education since 1953. Mother Tongue Based Bilingual or Multilingual Education is a program used since 1953 by different countries around the world like Indonesia, Cambodia, Nepal, Philippines and a lot more. This way of teaching is using the child’s first language, their mother tongue which is called the L1 in teaching in school
1. Introduction Educare Services is a leading regional provider of quality infant and child care services and bilingual kindergarten and preschool education to children two months to six years of age. It is a subsidiary of the MyStar Education Group. Educare Services’ curriculum integrates the best education approaches and methodologies from the West and the values of morality and inter-personal relationships of the East. This is achieved through a team of in-house expertise in curriculum research
2015). This is mainly because most indigenous languages are nowadays replaced by the dominant languages and they are not properly passed down to the younger generation. Sometimes having a minority language as their first language can be seen as a disadvantage as well. As the Endangered Language Project (ELP) states, "Of the Native American languages