The Impact of Bilingual Education on Cognitive Development and Academic Performance
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https://doi.org/10.55544/sjmars.3.6.8Keywords:
Bilingual education, cognitive development, academic performance, metalinguistic awareness, executive functioning, problem-solving ability, cognitive flexibility, multilingualism, educational equity, curriculum design, multicultural educationAbstract
The effect of bilingual education on students' cognitive development and academic performance over several educational levels is investigated in this work. Leveraging cognitive psychology ideas and actual data, the study investigates how learning two languages affects metalinguistic awareness, executive functioning, and problem-solving ability. Comparative studies of monolingual and bilingual students show that bilingual education not only improves cognitive flexibility but also helps to raise academic performance in fundamental courses such science, reading, and arithmetic. The results highlight the need of including bilingual programs inside regular courses, especially in multicultural and multilingual countries, to support intellectual development as well as educational fairness. Teachers, legislators, and curriculum designers trying to maximise the cognitive and intellectual advantages of bilingualism will find great value in this study.
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