The Effect of Learning a Second Language at an Early Stage

Abstract

Globalization is an international situation and is more and more widely accepted by people. With increasing globalization of the world economy, bilingualism is more and more widely used today as well. The effects of children learning a second language are hotly contested today. Through reviewing the previous studies, this paper aims to find out the positive and negative impacts on children of second language acquisition at the early stage. On the one hand, the benefits of learning a second language could help promote cognitive for example, memory, attentional ability and creativity. On the other hand, losing one’s native language might happen if a second language is learned too early and native language not normally used. Apart from that, extra academic burden and tuition fees also could hinder the process of second language learning. Overall, this paper illustrates positive and negative impacts of learning a second language early that help their teachers and parent’s bilingualism education of children. However, as of the relent previous studies and articles are limited that most of investigation lose sight of individual difference of interviewees and they are all conducted by earlier time from now, for the further research, it could be conducted by empirical research to update the new findings.