How Does Bilingualism Affect The Brain

It is a proven fact that by the age a child is 3 their brain is fully developed. When they are in the mothers whom that is when they can differentiate the the various sounds around them. There mothers voice is the first voice they pick up. It also has to do with the environment. Babies will adapt to the style of speaking it is around. When people talk around the babies they are taking statistics on what is said around them. If they are in American, then English is all that they knew because that is what they are exposed to. There may be cases where a baby can be exposed to more then one language, which can make it complicated for the child. Most likely kids that are exposed to both languages have a greater change to be enrolled in ESL (English …show more content…
They are learning double the amount of statistics, which can be a little complicated. Most of the time this is a disadvantage because in their household they would speak one language and when they are in public or in school they are talking in another language. This can hinder the kid from learning and picking up on the material. Bilingualism affects the brain in many ways, one of the ways that the brain is extremely affected is due to the statistics they are picking up. Bilingual kids has been studied on using the magnetoencephalography, it was shown that language production and comprehension works differently. “Bilingualism-related difference in brain activity is evident as early as 11 months of age, just as babies are on the verge of producing their first words” (McElroy 2016). So it is a little more complicated for bilingual babies. For example, kids that are monolingual stops recollecting another language if its not their native language, on the other hand kids that are bilingual pick of another language. They are more alerted and more open minded when it comes to languages. There brain wanted to devolved another language its a natural thing if you are raised in a bilingual