Language is power
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The document argues that bilingualism in Puerto Rico should be promoted for three key reasons. First, bilingualism heightens one's ability to monitor their environment by requiring keeping track of language changes. Second, learning a second language has a positive effect on intellectual growth and enhances children's mental development. Third, bilingualism strengthens executive functions like problem solving, mental flexibility, and attentional control that are important for cognitive processing. The document provides evidence from researchers and studies that bilingual individuals display advantages in these areas.
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Language is power
- 1. Language is Power Jaime R. Gutiérrez
- 2. Hook
- 3. Thesis Statement • I'm in favor of promoting biligualism in Puerto Rico
- 4. Subtopic #1 • A heightened ability to monitor the environment.
- 5. Evidence “Bilinguals have to switch languages quite often — you may talk to your father in one language and to your mother in another language,” says Albert Costa, a researcher at the University of Pompeu Fabra in Spain. “It requires keeping track of changes around you."
- 6. Subtopic #2 • Has a positive effect on intellectual growth and enriches and enhances a child's mental development
- 7. Evidence • Kathleen Marcos (1998) reviews the personal, cognitive, academic, and societal benefits of second language learning.
- 8. Subtopic #3 • Executive functions are those cognitive processes such as problem solving, mental flexibility, attentional control, inhibitory control, and task switching.
- 9. Evidence • Bilingual individuals have been shown over a number of different tasks and situations to be better at such processes; suggesting an interaction between being bilingual and executive functions.
- 10. Call To Action