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Research across different continents of the world shows that bilinguals tend to be more fluent, flexible and elaborate in their answers to this type of open-ended question. The person who can think of a few answers tends to be termed a convergent thinker. They converge onto a few acceptable conventional answers. People who think a lot of different uses for usual items (e.g. a brick, tin can, cardboard box) are called divergers. Divergers like a variety of answers to a question and are imaginative and fluent in their thinking. There are other dimensions in their thinking where approximately 'balanced' bilinguals may have temporary and occasionally permanent advantages over monolinguals: increased sensitivity to communication, a slightly speedier movement through the stages of cognitive development, and being less fixed on the sounds of words and more centered on the meaning of words. Such ability to move away from the sound of words and fix on the meaning of words tends to be a (temporary) advantage for bilinguals around the ages four to six. This advantage may mean an initial head start in learning to read and learning to think about language. *bilingualism: the ability to speak two languages *monolingual: using or speaking only one language True, False and Not Given Sebelum mulai QUIZ baca dulu ya. Ingat: 1. TRUE jika pernyataan sesuai dengan informasi 2. FALSE jika pernyataan berlawanan dengan informasi 3. NOT GIVEN jika tidak ada informasi terkait pernyataan

Bilingualism in Children One misguided legacy of over a hundred years of writing on bilingualism is that children's intelligence will suffer if they are bilingual. SOme of the earliest research into bilingualism examined whether bilingual children were ahead or behind monolingual children on IQ tests. Frem the 1920s through the 1960s, the tendency was to find monolingual children ahead of bilingualism on IQ tests. The conclusion was that bilingual children were mentally confused. Having two languages in their brain, it was said, disrupted effective thinking. It was argued that having one well-developed language was superior to having two half-developed languages. The idea that bilinguals may have a lower IQ exists among many people, particularly monolinguals. However we now know that this early research was misconceived and incorrect. First, such research often gave bilinguals an IQ test in their weaker language - usually English. Had bilinguals been tested in Wels or Spanish or Hebrew, a different result may have been found. The testing of bilinguals was thus unfair. Second, like was not compared with like. Bilinguals tended to come from, for example, improvised New York or rural Wels backgrounds. The monolinguals tended to come from more middle class, urban families. Working class bilinguals were often compared with middle class monolinguals. So the results were more likely to be due to social class differences than language differences. The comparison of monolinguals and bilinguals was unfair. The most recent research from Canada, the United States and Wales suggests that bilinguals are, at least, equal to monolinguals on IQ tests. When bilinguals have two well-developed languages (in the research literature called balanced bilinguals), bilinguals tend to show slight superiority in IQ tests compared with monolinguals. This is the received psychological wisdom of the moment and is good news for raising bilingual children. Take, for example, a child who can operate in either language in the curriculum in the school. That child is likely to be ahead on IQ tests compared with similar (same gender, social class and age) monolinguals. Far from making people mentally confused, bilingualism is nowassociated with a mild degree of intellectual superiority. One note caution needs to be sounded. IQ tests probably do not measure intelligence. IQ tests measure a small sample of the broadest concept of intelligence. IQ tests are simply paper and pencil tests where only 'right and wrong' answers are allowed. Is all intelligence summed up in such right and wrong, pencil and paper tests? Isn't there a wider variety of intelligence that are important in everyday functioning and everyday life? many question need answering. Do we only define an intelligence person as somebody who obtains a high score on an IQ test? Are the only intelligent people those who belong to high IQ organizations such as MENSA? Is there social intelligence, musical intelligence, military intelligence, marketing intelligence, motoring intelligence, political intelligence? Are all, or indeed any, of these forms of intelligence measured by a simple pencil and paper IQ test which demands a single, acceptable, correct solution to each question? Defining constitutes intelligent behavior requires a personal value judgment as to what type of behavior, and what kind of person is of more worth. The current state of psychological wisdom about bilingual children is that, where two languages are relatively well developed, bilinguals have thinking advantages over monolinguals. Take an example. A child is asked a simple question: How many uses can you think of for a brick? Some children give two or three answers. They can think of building walls, building a house and perhaps that is all. Another child scribbles away, pouring out ideas one after the other: blocking up a rabbit hole, breaking a window, using it as a bird bath, as a plumb line, as an abstract sculpture in an art exhibition.

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