The Relationship between Student Achievement and Multilingualism

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The study investigates the impact of multilingualism on cognitive and academic performance, proposing that early foreign language education in U.S. schools could enhance student outcomes. By comparing standardized test scores of 500 multilingual and 500 monolingual students in grades 5 to 8, significant differences were found favoring multilingual students. These findings suggest that integrating foreign language instruction into the curriculum could improve overall educational performance, urging policymakers and educators to prioritize language teaching in schools.