Benefits of Bilingualism in Early Childhood: A Booster of Teaching English to Young Learners
- DOI
- 10.2991/icece-16.2017.68How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Bilingualism, Early Childhood, TEYL
- Abstract
For many years, bilingual program continues to receive criticism. Many experts believed that it could affect intellectual development. A number of opinions on bilingualism are often based on myths and misinterpretations, but less on scientific findings. There are numbers of myths about bilingualism and in particular about teaching children a second language early such as, language learning delay, split personality, cerebral confusion or mixing language that affects confusion. In spite of receiving criticism, there are many advantages that support bilingualism. This article is going to discuss about the definition of bilingualism, benefits of bilingualism in early childhood; cognitive advantages, social-emotional advantages, and career advantages. Furthermore, this article highlights about the phenomenon of teaching English to young learners in Indonesia in relation to benefits of being bilingual. Since English has gained the status of international lingua franca, therefore teaching English as a foreign language (afterward EFL) has become one of the major issues both to governments and individuals. Introducing English to young learner meets the benefits of bilingualism in early childhood.
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- © 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Rismareni Pransiska PY - 2016/11 DA - 2016/11 TI - Benefits of Bilingualism in Early Childhood: A Booster of Teaching English to Young Learners BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Early Childhood Education (ICECE 2016) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 390 EP - 393 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icece-16.2017.68 DO - 10.2991/icece-16.2017.68 ID - Pransiska2016/11 ER -