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David Crowther

@dcrowther.bsky.social

Professor Emeritus Science Education at the University of Nevada, Reno. Past President of the National Science Teaching Association (2017-2018).

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The Cognitive Benefits of Being Bilingual Today, more of the world’s population is bilingual or multilingual than monolingual. In addition to facilitating cross-cultural communication, this trend also positively affects cognitive abilities. R...

Not quite sure why the current U.S. administration is so bent on being monolingual? The benefits of being multilingual are astounding including better cognitive, social, academic, etc. development! See the benefits of being multilingual. Just one example!

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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