Learning Journal #9 - SDLC 105

[Arnanto Januri]

Many people argue that bilingualism can make you smarter, because it improves some cognitive skills that are not related to languages. This article was interesting to read because it contained a lot of descriptive statistics. However, I think this argument is a very broad claim. What does it mean to be smart? There are many subjective areas that can make you a smart person. The 2009 study led by Kovac claims that the babies who were raised on two languages where quicker to anticipate the appearance of the puppet. But, it is possible that there are other (extraneous) variables and influenced this reaction from the baby, and language may not be the variable.