Advantages Of Bilingual Education

Education is one of the most important aspect of our life, Cambridge University Press(2016) suggests the definition of education is the method of acquiring knowledge and distributing information, especially in study environment such as high school, university. For example, lecturer will distribute knowledge to the university students while having a lecture and another example will be tutor are having a tutorial with students that seek for help, both lecturers and tutors are distributing knowledge to student, so this is a form of education. Our essay will be focusing on the methods of educating children and it rounds up to two types of education, monolingual education and bilingual education, the definition of monolingual education is a language

It is expected that the people who study bilingual education have a better reaction time to incident compare to the people who study monolingual education. There is an experiment that conducted by scientists to use to test the reaction time of the participants who participate in the experiment, it is named ”stroop test”, participants will be shown a series of words that about colour with different colour as the ink, participants have to filter the word related to colour is different with the ink colour, and found out the colour of the ink. At the end of the result, scientist discover that bilingual education only need extra 160 millisecond plus their own reaction time to process the information, to compare with the monolingual education, they need 240 millisecond plus their own reaction time to complete “Stroop” test.( Amina Khan,Los Angles Time, 2011) Bialystok(2011) also make a theory, he suggest the reason that bilingual education has a better performance in the “Stroop” test is because bilingual education usually arrange information in a more organizing way when they have some tough situation throughout the day. Furthermore, Christoffels(2014) stated that bilingual generally perform faster by using Costa et.al.,(2009) to support it evidence. Costa et.al.,(2009) discovered that bilingual are more efficient in response in conflict than monolingual, so it is

Colzato et.al.,(2008) has conducted an experiment of inviting 29 high school students which receiving monolingual education and 31 high school students who receive English and Dutch, the participants has participate in a global-local switching task, they will be shown a series of stimuli and they have to determine whether the rectangle or the square are consisted by smaller square or small rectangle, if it is consisted by smaller rectangle press left button, but if it is consisted by small square, they have to press the right button. After participants finished those 160 trials, Colzato et al.,(2008) stated that the bilingual group are having less global precedence effect than the monolingual group, global precedence effect is when a person who have only distinguish the general image rather than the details, bilingual group has a less global precedence effect suggests that students who receive bilingual education are more likely analytical and strong attention focus on detail. To further support my idea, Colzato et al.,2008 also stated that “bilinguals are not more efficient in inhibiting unwanted motor responses than monolinguals, but are less efficient than monolinguals in distributing attentional resources over multiple visual target events. This suggests