The Advantages of Bilingualism



The Advantages of Bilingualism

Introduction

Communication plays a significant role in human life. Communication consists of two factors, which are speech and language. The whole process requires involvement of learning and a code that processes a linguistic unit. All the related process and organization takes place in this very unit and requires the use of cognitive skills. Therefore, it can be said that communication is an outcome of collaboration of cognizance and language. These cognitive procedures help in shaping linguistic skills to communicate (Stephen. S. et al., 2010).

Today, one's ability to speak more than one language is considered as a practical benefit in the era of globalization. It is a proved fact by scientists that benefits of bilingualism are far more than communicating numerous people. Bilingualism affects brain and makes it process information more effectively. It nourishes and improves cognitive skills and protects against dementia old age.

Aims and Objectives

The main objective of this study is to investigate the advantages of bilingualism and involvement of cognitive abilities in people.

Questions

Some of the questions pertaining to the relevant effects of bilingualism are given below:

What is the significant effect of bilingualism on children?

What are the key benefits of bilingualism?

How bilingualism affects cognitive skills?

What is the key difference between bilinguals and monolingual?

Hypothesis

Hypothesis of the study are based on the key objective of research and are described below;

H0: Bilingualism and cognitive development are optimistically related.

H1: Bilingualism and cognitive development are not optimistically related.

Research Methodology

In order to conduct a research on the aforementioned subject, we have used secondary data and qualitative research methods. For this purpose, we have reviewed several journals, academic researches and newspaper articles addressing the benefits of bilingualism such as Cognitive Linguistic abilities in Bilingual children, Educational Leadership, American language-speech learning association and the New York Times. These researches are based on primary data, quantitative tools, and historical findings.

Literature Review

In the early 20th century, study on bilingualism exhibited diverse affects of bilingualism on humans and indicated the consequences of confusion in thinking process as compare to monolinguals. The results of bilingual children indicated lower scores in verbal intelligence quizzes and consecutively performed bad in tests and exams as well. Further study termed bilinguals children as language handicap. In early studies, bilingual students were shown as inferior as compare to monolinguals and lacked linguistic abilities. Bilinguals were also proved to possess poor vocabulary skills, make grammatical mistakes and poor at structuring written composition. Semantic ...