{"id":203,"date":"2018-02-28T21:39:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T21:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregon-hope.org?p=203"},"modified":"2018-05-30T04:28:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T04:28:21","slug":"power-of-bilingual-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oregon-hope.org\/index.php\/2018\/02\/28\/power-of-bilingual-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Power of Bilingual Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"text-align: left; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; cursor: text; orphans: 2; float: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 Power of Bilingual Education<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 13pt;\">Choosing\u00a0where to send children to school is a big decision. Your child\u2019s education whether it be monolingual or bilingual, is one of the most important things you will have to consider during their lives. There are many benefits of a bilingual education.\u00a0If your child is bilingual when they are ready to start school, learning in a bilingual school can reinforce their languages.\u00a0If your child can speak only one language, giving them a bilingual education can help them to acquire an additional language in a short amount of time. Immersing your child\u00a0into the language on a daily basis long term, will not only help them to become\u00a0proficient in the language, but will also be exposed to\u00a0other opportunities. <a href=\"https:\/\/bilingualkidspot.com\/2016\/07\/21\/bilingual-education-benefits\/\">Read More<\/a> \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: black; font-family: '&amp;quot','serif'; font-size: 13.5pt;\">Much research has been done on bilingual children and researchers agree they don\u2019t have any delays in developing languages. In fact, they are better able to <strong><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: '&amp;quot','serif'; font-weight: normal;\">focus their attention<\/span><\/strong> and <strong><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: '&amp;quot','serif'; font-weight: normal;\">ignore distractions<\/span><\/strong> (Cognitive Reserve), <strong><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: '&amp;quot','serif'; font-weight: normal;\">more creative<\/span><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: '&amp;quot','serif'; font-weight: normal;\">better at planning, more competent at solving complex problems<\/span><\/strong> and more <strong><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: '&amp;quot','serif'; font-weight: normal;\">analytical<\/span><\/strong>. They have <strong><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: '&amp;quot','serif'; font-weight: normal;\">higher cultural awareness<\/span><\/strong>, <strong><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: '&amp;quot','serif'; font-weight: normal;\">better social skills <\/span><\/strong>and<strong><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: '&amp;quot','serif'; font-weight: normal;\"> higher EQ. <\/span><\/strong>Bilingual children have<strong><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: '&amp;quot','serif'; font-weight: normal;\"> cognitive flexibility,<\/span><\/strong> <strong><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: '&amp;quot','serif'; font-weight: normal;\">make decision faster<\/span><\/strong>, perform <strong><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: '&amp;quot','serif'; font-weight: normal;\">well in logic, math, music, computer, science<\/span><\/strong> and <strong><span style=\"margin: 0px; font-family: '&amp;quot','serif'; font-weight: normal;\">easily learn other languages. <\/span><\/strong>Based on this, if we want to raise a whole population of children with exceptional abilities, it is our duty as teachers and parents to support and encourage language learning and to invest in bilingual education. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ronitbaras.com\/education-learning\/the-power-of-bilingualism\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Related Links:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/bilingual-speak-two-languages-brain-more-efficient-combat-cognitive-ageing-study-universit-de-montr-a7519026.html\">How does Biligual Effect People&#8217;s Brain<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/news\/speeches\/importance-bilingual-education\">The Importance of Bilingual Education- from U S Department of Decuation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oregon-hope.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oregon-hope.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oregon-hope.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oregon-hope.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oregon-hope.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/oregon-hope.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/oregon-hope.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oregon-hope.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oregon-hope.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oregon-hope.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oregon-hope.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}