From Early Childhood Education.<\/p>\n

When you hear someone complain that East Indian or Chinese students often do better that everyone else, they might just be right. But why is that?<\/p>\n

Well, it isn\u2019t that they\u2019re smarter because of their racial background. More likely it\u2019s because they tend to be bilingual, trilingual and sometimes just multilingual in general.<\/p>\n

For a long time, experts believed that being bilingual was a bad thing, that it could affect intellectual development. While there might be some \u201cinterference,\u201d there is more than enough evidence to show that learning just a 2nd language improves thinking abilities and more, and even test scores for students.<\/p>\n

In the U.S., about 21% of school-age Americans speak a non-English language at home. The number of people speaking a non-English language at home increased 140% <\/strong>between 1980 and 2007, to over 55M people, and the number of actual bilingual speakers aged 5 and up has more tan doubled <\/strong>from 1980 to 2007.<\/p>\n

The number of Spanish speakers in the U.S. increased 211%, – an increase of \u201d23.4M more speakers -.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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