{"id":1794,"date":"2003-12-01T23:34:57","date_gmt":"2003-12-02T03:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/12\/01\/adopted-chinese-kids-learn-english-fas"},"modified":"2003-12-01T23:34:57","modified_gmt":"2003-12-02T03:34:57","slug":"adopted-chinese-kids-learn-english-faster-than-natives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/12\/01\/adopted-chinese-kids-learn-english-faster-than-natives\/","title":{"rendered":"Adopted Chinese Kids Learn English Faster than Natives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1950'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Temple Universtiy report that Chinese youngsters, 18 months to 2 years old, are acquiring English language skills faster than their native-born schoolmates.  Surely this is evidence that multi-lingualism is an enriching advantage, at least in young children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Surprisingly, the majority of the toddlers and preschoolers we studied showed no evidence of delay in their English language development as compared with their U.S.-born age-mates. Indeed, many of the adopted children had language skills that would be considered excellent for children born here,&#8221; said Krakow, associate professor of communications sciences in Temple&#8217;s College of Health Professions.<\/p>\n<p>from Temple via <a href=\"img\" name=\"807\" \/>http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2003-12\/tu-sfa120103.php&#8221;&gt;Eureka Alert<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Temple Universtiy report that Chinese youngsters, 18 months to 2 years old, are acquiring English language skills faster than their native-born schoolmates. Surely this is evidence that multi-lingualism is an enriching advantage, at least in young children. &#8220;Surprisingly, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/12\/01\/adopted-chinese-kids-learn-english-faster-than-natives\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}