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To: redfish who wrote (99791)	3/29/2005 10:36:53 AM
From: Bill	Respond to of 108807

There you go again, displaying yours. Nevermind.

To: redfish who wrote (99791)	3/29/2005 10:43:07 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 108807

Interestingly multilingual people have better wiring in their brains. The switching between multiple languages seems to enhance the running ability of the brain- no surprise there, since language is neural stimulation, and we know that neural stimulation builds pathways (and the more pathways, the better your brain). They do better in all languages- including the home language. There have been numerous studies on this because of the need to teach ELL students in the US. We know that folks who continue learning in their base language do better than monolingual speakers who are native, or second language learners. It takes the bilingual child a little longer to sort everything out- but after he or she does, they really take off. Unfortunately in the US we have a mission of basically strangling the root language for Hispanic children- thus pretty much guaranteeing (according to our own studies) that they will never do as well as truly bilingual, or English only monolingual, students.