miércoles, 16 de mayo de 2018

The sooner the better? A study breaks the beliefs about bilingualism


I have found this headline on the digital newspaper El país which claims that lot of parents want their children to be bilingual and learn another language. It says that there had been lot of investigations about the critical period, but a current one has told that the critical period is until the seventeen or eighteen years but it does not expect to reach a proficiency level. 


It is also said that a child only can achieve that level until the ten years old.  It is also claimed that this biliguism achievement is until the eighteen years because after this age, their interests and context change and all that could affect to their learning.

As we have learnt all children have a critical period to learn and to develope some skills each time, not all children have the same time to develope themselves and also learning takes time. 

To the question that appears at the headline that if is better to start learning before?  I will answer that children have a critical period to develope each skill and they have to expand them depending of they own developement. 

Noelia Máñez

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