Bilingual Education Helps Kids’ Brains to Better Resist Distraction

Canadian psychologist Ellen Bialystok believes bilinguals are better at tuning out the noise. Their brains may have a stronger “executive control” system because of the need to switch, mentally, between languages.

“Bilinguals are more efficient in resolving mental competition,” said psychology professor JudithKroll.

Marie Skłodowska-Curie was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. While a French citizen, Marie Skłodowska-Curie (she used both surnames) never lost her sense of Polish identity. She taught her daughters the Polish language and took them on visits to Poland. She named the first chemicalelement that she discovered – polonium, which she first isolated in 1898 – after her native country.

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To learn more about the benefits of Bilingual Education read the post below

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/09/could-bilingual-education-mold-kids-brains-to-better-resist-distraction/