Bilingualism and the cognitive development in second language speakers

Abstract:

The world has made great changes in the last century regarding communication; most societies have adopted different languages to carry out their education, business, technologies, and social life. Among the most important languages around the world, it is the English language that is considered as a lingua franca, and most people want to master it for being competitive in different fields. Besides, these well-known aspects there are lots of research which claims for a more critical role of bilingualism and its effect on effect on cognition and skills which are related with being creative, independent, innovative, and to be able to make decisions, take risks, among others which are the new abilities for the XXI century. Hence, this research intends to present a comparative analysis based on bibliographical and documental research on updated theories that are in favor and opposite with the effect of bilingualism in cognition.

Año de publicación:

2020

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