Memory and language learning have links that scientists have been exploring for almost a century, with the majority concluding that bilingual or multilingual people have better memory performance. Eva Commissaire, a psychology researcher at the Laboratoire de Psychologie des Cognitions (LPC) at the University of Strasbourg, guides Science and Future in the twists and turns of these discoveries, right up to modern research giving us valuable clues as to how language learning would be most relevant.
By Camille Gaubert THE Subscribers
Experimental psychology research on the subject reveals that learning and practicing multiple languages confers some cognitive advantages, particularly in terms of memory. These findings, conversely, could inform us about the best strategies for learning and memorizing languages at school.
In France, only 54% of the population is monolingual (only speaks French).
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