Life Desk :
Always wondered the secret behind improving your child’s communication skills? A study published in the journal, Psychological Science suggests that kids have a high chance of becoming better communicators when exposed to more than one language.
Kids have a high chance of becoming better communicators when exposed to more than one language.
The study noted that a child need not be bilingual but even auditory exposure to more than one language is the key for building effective social communication skills.
“Children in multilingual environments have extensive social practice in monitoring who speaks what to whom, and observing the social patterns and allegiances that are formed based on language usage,” explained Katherine Kinzler, associate professor of psychology at University of Chicago.
It is important to be able to understand others’ perspective for effective communication and researchers discovered that children from multilingual environments are better at interpreting a speaker’s meaning than children who are exposed only to their native tongue.
Children from multilingual environments are better at interpreting a speaker’s meaning than children who are exposed only to their native tongue.
“These early socio-linguistic experiences could hone children’s skills at taking other people’s perspectives and provide them tools for effective communication,” Kinzler noted.
-India Today
