Bilingual Education Helps to Improve the Intelligence of Children

Abstract

This study uses an IQ test to test the "intelligence" of two pupil groups: one is studying the bilingual program and the other is learning the monolingual program plus English subject as a foreign language. The study discovers that both groups have increased the IQ score after seven months at schools. This result proves that IQ scores are not fixed but can increase through ages of children from 6 to 11 as well as through education. However, the group of bilingual pupils has higher increase of IQ scores in comparison with the monolingual group, proving the bilingual education can help to better improve the intelligence of children. This is agreeable with the results of many previous researches.