Kids From Multilingual Environments Likely To Be Better Natural Communicators

Kids from multilingual environments become better communicators, according to a new paper in  Psychological Science which says that such children are better at interpreting a speaker's meaning than children who are exposed only to their native tongue - even if the kids are not bilingual themselves. Exposure to more than one language is the key for building effective social communication skills, says University of Chicago Katherine Kinzler, who believes this paper is the first to demonstrate the social benefits of just being exposed to multiple languages.  read more

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