Open AccessBilingual Education Helps to Improve the Intelligence of Children
Author(s) -
Mai Thanh Nguyen
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
world journal of english language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1925-0711
pISSN - 1925-0703
DOI - 10.5430/wjel.v7n4p11
Subject(s) - test (biology) , intelligence quotient , subject (documents) , foreign language , psychology , pupil , computer science , developmental psychology , mathematics education , artificial intelligence , cognition , world wide web , paleontology , neuroscience , biology
This study uses an IQ test to test the “intelligence” of two pupil groups: one is studying the bilingual program and theother is learning the monolingual program plus English subject as a foreign language. The study discovers that bothgroups have increased the IQ score after seven months at schools. This result proves that IQ scores are not fixedbut can increase through ages of children from 6 to 11 as well as through education. However, the group ofbilingual pupils has higher increase of IQ scores in comparison with the monolingual group, proving the bilingualeducation can help to better improve the intelligence of children. This is agreeable with the results of manyprevious researches.