The Benefits of Multilingualism to the Personal and Professional Development of Residents of the US

• Published in: Foreign language annals Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 248 - 259
• Main Authors: Kroll, Judith F., Dussias, Paola E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley-Blackwell 2017; American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
• Subjects: Adult Basic Education; Adult learning; Adult Students; Adults; Aging; Aging (Individuals); Alzheimer's disease; Attitudes; Babies; Bilingualism; Brain; Brain research; Cognition & reasoning; Cognitive Ability; cognitive and neural consequences; Cognitive Development; Dementia; Economic indicators; Educational Benefits; Language; language experience; language learning; Language Research; Literacy; Multilingualism; myths; Native languages; Neurological Impairments; Neurosciences; Pathology; Preschool education; Psycholinguistics; Psychology of learning; Second Language Learning; Stereotypes; Stroke; Studies; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Trends; Well Being; Young Children; United States > US; cognitive and neural consequences; language learning; language experience; myths; multilingualism

In the past two decades, new research on multilingualism has changed our understanding of the consequences of learning and using two or more languages for cognition, for the brain, and for success and well‐being across the entire lifespan. Far from the stereotype that exposure to multiple languages...