Krista Byers-Heinlein: “We have not been able to dig deep and see if different bilingual children have different bilingual experiences.” | Photo by Daiga Ellaby on Unsplash

Krista Byers-Heinlein: “We have not been able to dig deep and see if different bilingual children have different bilingual experiences.” | Photo by Daiga Ellaby on Unsplash

 

Concordia University researchers and their partners at Princeton University have received $2M in funding for a longitudinal study that investigates how toddlers’ exposure to two languages affects their development as they age. The study will follow two groups of 50 children, one growing up in French-English households in Montreal, the other in Spanish-English households in New Jersey. Lead researchers Krista Byers-Heinlein from Concordia and Casey Lew-Williams from Princeton states that they hope the study will help “understand more about growing up bilingual, the different paths toward bilingualism, and ultimately the best ways to promote positive developmental outcomes for children exposed to two languages,” reports Concordia.

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