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21 Insightful Tips to Raise a Trilingual Child

Whether you want it or not, the world is becoming more and more globalized and cosmopolitan. The future of science is multidisciplinary…

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Do Experiences With Nature Promote Learning? Converging Evidence of a Cause-and-Effect Relationship

Do experiences with nature – from wilderness backpacking to plants in a preschool, to a wetland lesson on frogs—promote learning? Until recently, claims outstripped evidence on this question. But the...

Harvard psychologist to parents: Do these 7 things if you want to raise kids with flexible,...

A child's brain isn't a miniature adult brain. It's a brain born under construction that wires itself to the world—and parents must to create an environment that's rich with wiring instructions.

Cognitive Consequences of Trilingualism

The objectives of the present research were to examine the cognitive consequences of trilingualism and explain them relative to the cognitive consequences of bilingualism. A comparison of cognitive...

Bilingualism in the Early Years: What the Science Says

Many children in North America and around the world grow up exposed to two languages from an early age. Parents of bilingual infants and toddlers have important questions about the costs and benefits...

英語学習を始めるのに「最適な年齢」はあるのか…研究結果は？ | ゴールドオンライン

幼少期に無理に英語を学ばなくても、大人になってから留学すれば大丈夫では？…このように考える方もいるでしょう。しかし、自然に英語を身につけ、ネイティブ級のスキルを習得するには、幼いころに英語のある環境に身を置くことが非常に重要です。本連載は、幼児英語教育研究家である三幣真理氏が、国内の一般家庭で子どもをバイリンガルに育てるための家庭習慣を紹介します。