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Meeting Dr. Bialystok

By Julia Pimsleur Levine on November 19, 2009

Last weekend I attended a talk at a local Barnes & Noble by Dr. Ellen Bialystok, who was speaking about the cognitive benefits of children being bilingual. She is a Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology at York University in Canada. I have been following her work for a long time and have cited her research [...]

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In 2009 a Majority of the World is Multi-Lingual…Shouldn’t your Kids Be?

By Julia Pimsleur Levine on January 21, 2009

I watched the inauguration yesterday and shared the renewed sense of hope so many of us felt, and was also reminded that we have a long way to go to repair our country domestically, and our standing internationally. Barack Obama has already generated a lot of good will abroad and thanks to his election, we [...]

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