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Second Language Learning In Elementary Years: Cognitive And Social-Emotional Benefits, Brooke Elenbaas
Second Language Learning In Elementary Years: Cognitive And Social-Emotional Benefits, Brooke Elenbaas
Culminating Experience Projects
All through the world bilingualism is a normal part of school, work, and culture creating cognitive and social-emotional benefits (Fan, 2016; Marian & Shook, 2012). The United States is a unique educational system, distinctly geared towards monolinguals, specifically English, especially in the elementary schools. The absence of second language learning at the elementary grades is a gap districts should seek to fill as research shows brain development positively effecting cognitive and social-emotional learning during this early stage of development (Abutalebi et al., 2011). This project is an in-service designed for elementary school districts pursuing a better understanding of why second …