Positive Effects of Bilingualism: Divergent Thinking and Its Implications for Language Education
Positive Effects of Bilingualism: Divergent Thinking and Its Implications for Language Education作者机构:University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia
出 版 物:《海外英语》 (Overseas English)
年 卷 期:2014年第22期
页 面:284-287页
学科分类:0501[文学-中国语言文学] 0303[法学-社会学] 050102[文学-语言学及应用语言学] 03[法学] 030303[法学-人类学] 05[文学]
主 题:bilingualism divergent thinking cognitive developm
摘 要:The issue of bilingualism has been widely explored in the past decades,showing that there are multiple positive effects ofadditive bilingualism.Such positive factors are closely linked with children’s cognitive development and *** paper gives a detailed review on how bilingualism plays a role in children’s divergent thinking *** taking advantage of such positive effects in language education should be a significant part for bilingual education and foreign language ***,this paper further discusses the educational implications of these theoretic findings,suggesting that an additive bilingual environment should be cultivated through multiple ways of curriculum and program planning.