Bilingual children have a better 'working memory' than monolingual children
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 17:31
in Psychology & Sociology
Bilingual children develop a better working memory –- which holds, processes and updates information over short periods of time -– than monolingual children, according to new research. The working memory plays a major role in the execution of a wide range of activities, such as mental calculation (since we have to remember numbers and operate with them) or reading comprehension (given that it requires associating the successive concepts in a text).