SDLC 105-Journal 10

[Christy Buranaamorn]

“Why Bilinguals Are Smarter” by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee really gives the reader a glimpse into the benefits of learning more than one language. I have personally never considered all of these benefits and truly had no idea about the extent to which research has been conducted in regards to bilingualism and intelligence/cognition. In this day and age, it makes more sense to correlate bilingualism with greater cognition and having a greater adaptability for changes in a new environment, for example. The research findings in this article really blew my mind. In particular, research pertaining to Alzheimer’s disease as well as dementia was quite telling. Those who were bilingual were more resistant to obtaining such symptoms in comparison to those who were monolingual. Therefore I realized that I really would like my children to learn more than one language as they are growing up. It will give their minds a workout and it will help them mentally in the long term, based on this interesting research.