Washburn School Pre-School Students: Young and Bilingual
It is a little early, yet today is their first day of school! May their journey begin! Washburn ensures a family environment where students study in small classrooms with one of the best student-teacher ratios in Puerto Rico.
Here are some of the benefits of studying at a total English immersion school with a multilingual focus in both their primary and secondary language.
- According to research, learning a second language before age 7 helps a to better understand our primary language. This is because learning a new tongue teases out similarities and differences between the primary language and others stimulating areas of the brain that strengthen our main language.
- Brain activity tests described recent research from 2011 show that bilinguals have a heightened ability over monolinguals to monitor and evaluate their immediate environment and keep track of what’s going on more efficiently.
- "A 2008 scholarly research study published in Applied Developmental Science stated stunning evidence that a bilingual or trilingual child’s ability to operate between multiple languages strengthens mental flexibility, self-control/self-regulation, cognitive intelligence, behavior, and the ease of switching between complex mental tasks
- According to a recent 2016 study published in Neurology Today stated that bilingualism may delay the onset of dementia and mental health problems in old age by as many as seven years.