Shining a Light on How Bilingual Children Learn

October 11, 2022 • by Marc Airhart

UT assistant professor Maria Arredondo conducts an experiment to identify whether or not bilingual children are more efficient learners.

A child wearing a black cap touches a touchscreen computer

Wearing a cap with instruments that map brain activity, a child completes various cognitive tasks related to learning. Photo credit: PBS/Otherwords/Spotzen.


Portrait of a woman with dark hair

Maria Arredondo is trying to understand how growing up in a bilingual environment affects a child's learning.

On the right is a cookie and on the left is a made-up toy that's tube-shaped with spokes radiating from the top

An example of a type of stimulus used in Arredondo's tasks. In this case, children learn a new word for a made-up toy (left). Credit: Maria Arredondo.

Girl wearing a black cap and sitting on her mother's lap looks off camera while two scientists look at a computer in the background

Wearing a cap with instruments that map brain activity, a child completes various cognitive tasks related to learning. Photo credit: PBS/Otherwords/Spotzen.

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