Bilinguals slower to build vocabulary but better at multitasking than monolinguals
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–April 3, 2012. Children who grow up learning to speak two languages are better at switching between tasks than are children who learn to speak only one language, according to a study funded in part by the National Institutes of Health. However, the study also found that bilinguals are slower to acquire vocabulary than are monolinguals, because bilinguals must divide their time between…
