The benefits of the bilingual program
Research shows that only a program taught in two languages can produce fully bilingual children. Educated in two languages, the child improves his mental agility. A child used to expressing and reasoning in two languages is able to multitask, while maintaining a good level of concentration. And the earlier a child is exposed to bilingualism, the more effective and fruitful it is.
Cognitive benefits
- Mental flexibility
- Conceptual mobility
- Increased faculty of abstract reasoning
- Advantages in the construction of concepts
- Verbal intelligence
- Increased creative thinking
- Better communicative sensitivity
- Ability to solve problems
- Better performance in spatial perception
- Impacts in the field of mathematics
- Richer and more attractive program
- Ease of learning multiple languages
Communication benefits
- Greater communication opportunities (families, communities, international relations, etc.)
- Reading and writing skills in French and English
* Cultural benefits
- Multiculturalism, experience of two linguistic worlds
- Greater tolerance
Personal benefits
- Higher self-esteem
- Affirmation of one’s identity