【Objective】 To investigate the effects of bilingual teaching on cognitive development of preschool children. 【Methods】 Three kindergartens in the same official qualification were selected. One was bilingual teaching, and other two were common ones. 120 randomly selected children aged 3 to 6 years were accepted the cognitive test respectively. Each age group had 20 children. 【Results】 With respect to intelligence Quotient, the scores of every item increased by age. There were no significant differences between two groups of the same class level(P＞0.05). The total scores of the oldest age showed significant higher than that of the monolingual group(P＜0.05). There were no significant differences between two group of other grades in other items of language, perception, quantity and memory(P＞0.05). 【Conclusions】 Preschool children in bilingual teaching kindergartens have similar cognitive development as children in general kindergartens. Bilingual education has limited influences on cognitive development in preschool children.
Key words
preschool children /
bilingual /
cognition
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