The Pros And Cons Of Bilingualism

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A significant proportion of the world devoted to research based in bilingual people. In the few past decade’s childrens in the world exposed to multiple languages. These people have to communicate and proceed using different system than monolingual speakers. Some previous studies have been reported same advantages and disadvantages on bilingualism. Therefore some advantages for example are, the creativity and the quicker solving mathematical problem for some researchers. Also being bilingual speaker has some cognitive effects that domain such as the intelligence or knowledgeable and the language ability in children and for adults.
Bilingual speakers has fluency in two languages, and whose use both languages in their daily routine. Monolingual speakers have more expending structured system of linguistic system and semantic intent. Therefore, bilingualism and monolinguals have some different and effects of how they are thinking and acting. Bilingualism has some consequences regarding
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Considering the bilinguals speakers advantages as we seen in adulthood, their interested arises the physical brain and structures the neural processes that regulate under a certain aspects, such as inhibition. From my point of view more research studies must been done not only about cognitive development but to be more specifies in the disadvantages of bilingual’s speakers and to be done more studies about the advantages of monolinguals speakers. In all the previous studies their results was similar and not enough clearly. For example being a bilingual speaker is an advantage or has a number of

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