Educating Emergent Bilinguals Quotes

“Bilingual practices have been shown to strengthen certain cognitive mechanisms, which in turn may increase one’s creative potential.”
― Ofelia García, Educating Emergent Bilinguals: Policies, Programs, and Practices for English Learners

“It has been found that bilinguals’ constant use of their different language practices strengthens the control mechanisms of the brain (the inhibitory control) and changes the associated brain regions”
― Ofelia García, Educating Emergent Bilinguals: Policies, Programs, and Practices for English Learners

“Bilingual speakers constantly select some features from their linguistic repertoire and inhibit others, relying on what psycholinguists call the executive function of the brain. Bialystok and her colleagues, who study how bilingualism affects the mind and brain, have used behavioral and neuroimaging methods to show that bilinguals, because of their constant use of two languages, perform better on executive control tasks than do monolinguals (Barac & Bialystok, 2012; Bialystok, 2011, 2015, 2016; Kroll & Bialystok, 2013).”
― Ofelia García, Educating Emergent Bilinguals: Policies, Programs, and Practices for English Learners