We talked about the types of attention before: sustained, selective, shiftable and divided attention.
It has been wondered and researched how bilingualism, that is, bilingualism, affects the development of attention in children.
The fact that more languages are spoken means that there are more and different visual and auditory stimuli. Being able to distinguish which speech belongs to which party in a multilingual environment enables the infant to develop the capacity to carefully monitor the source of speech. The child observes the source more carefully and for a long time in order to distinguish which language the words belong to. This paves the way for them to develop some differences compared to monolingual children when using attention pools.
It has been shown that babies who grow up in a bilingual environment are better able to pay attention to new stimuli and direct their attention more fluently from one source to another than those who grow up in a monolingual environment. It has been found that they are better at directing the attention demanded by changing environmental conditions and adapting to new things, and this well-being continues into adulthood.
In bilingual children, selective attention develops earlier and It has been observed that this facilitates the acquisition of language skills and distinguishing differences between languages. Concentration resources have been deployed to help distinguish which word belongs to which language, and it has been shown that this feature of selective attention continues in adulthood. In order to continue, we must first focus on a source and then draw attention from there and direct it to a new source. It has been determined that the ability to change direction, which we can simplify in this way of attachment-disconnection-reconnection, is faster and more effective in bilingual individuals.
The effect of exposure to different languages on our attention sources and how we can control them seems to be one of the interesting topics that should be investigated further.
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