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Bilingualism is no advantage when studying foreign languages at...

... upper secondary school

Source: Eurekalert, Public release date: 9-May-2011

Today, in Sweden a large proportion of school pupils have a foreign background and switch between their home language and Swedish on a daily basis. However, bilingualism in itself does not bring any advantages when it comes to learning a foreign language. A new thesis in German from the University of Gothenburg shows that bilingual upper secondary school pupils perform somewhat below average in language tests, compared with those who only speak one language. Read more...