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Multilingual Cognitive Development and Impact. By – Neha Gupta Ajay Rajaram. Motivation. How are multi-linguistic skills developed in humans?. Motivation. Difference in cognition of multi-linguists and mono-linguists - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Multilingual Cognitive Development and Impact
By –Neha Gupta
Ajay Rajaram
How are multi-linguistic skills developed in humans?
Motivation
Difference in cognition of multi-linguists and mono-linguists
Impact of multi-linguistic skills on other aspects of cognition and creativity
Motivation
How does bilingualism affects cognitive processes across the life span of human being?
Cognitive and Linguistic Processing in the Bilingual Mind
Neuroscience View on the working of the brains of bilingual people – uses Neuro-Imaging to study brain activation when a person switches one language to another
Cognitive control for language switching in bilinguals
Study by Anatoliy Kharkhurin examines the possible impact of bilingualism on creativity
The suggestion is that bilingualism seems to have a positive impact on creativity
However, does bilingualism have a direct impact on creativity or does it impact the mechanisms and processes underlying creativity? (Hommel et al. 2011)
Bilingualism and Creativity across Cultures
Studies cognitive factors in bilingual children, and how children develop the ability to speak the right language at the right time
Cognitive Factors in Bilingual Children’s Pragmatic Language Skills
“Dialogue through design: visual communication across the cultural divide”, Kara Pecknold
“In translation: a visualization of Language”, Linda Becker
References from ACM C&C
Survey of related work Experiments to support the conclusion
Methodology of Work
Paper providing an insight into the development and impact of multi-linguistic skills, especially in children
Correlation between linguistic skills and other non-linguistic creative and cognitive abilities - music, arithmetic, art, etc
Experimental data pertaining to multilingualism and to support the above hypothesis
Expected Outcome
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