Abstract
This article is addressed to parents, teachers and other carers in a migration situation, such as Chinese parents in Australia, facing the dilemma of whether it would be best for their children to learn only English so as to optimize their future academic and professional development. Apart from the well-known socio-cultural and economic advantages brought about by bilingualism, much recent research into bilingualism has uncovered specific lifelong cognitive advantages for those who regularly use two languages since childhood. This finding also extends to those bilinguals who learned their second language later in life.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | China Language Strategies. Volume 2, Number 1 |
| Place of Publication | China |
| Publisher | Nanjing University Press |
| Pages | 23-29 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9787305152429 |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- bilingualism
- children
- second language acquisition
- Chinese
- Australia