The product of a two-year foreign language course among high school graduates is that fewer than one student who graduates is fluent in the language studied (Caplan). Being bilingual has been proven to exhibit many benefits that not only improve a student's educational life, but also how the person can be educated and cultured in everyday life. It has also been shown that some diseases come on more slowly. It can also strengthen the mind by enabling us to think more efficiently. If bilingualism were proven to have benefits, the school district, the students' parents, and the students themselves should be concerned about the benefits of bilingualism. The public should be informed about all the benefits that being bilingual has on children's futures. He also talks about a study conducted by Tamer Gollan, neuropsychologist at the University of California, San Diego. He conducted a study on 44 Spanish-English bilingual older adults. Gollan measured the level of bilingualism in each subject. The results showed that the higher level of knowledge of two languages showed a lower occurrence of some diseases (Bhattacharjee). In the article “The power of the bilingual mind”, by Jeffrey Kluger, he talks about a study conducted by Ellen Bialystok. In this study, he studied older adults suffering from "severe age-related cognitive decline" and found that bilinguals gained 4.1 years more clarity before symptoms of dementia appeared. It also found that bilinguals gained 5.1 years longer than monolinguals who develop Alzheimer's. specifically (Kluger). When put into perspective, being bilingual does not completely stop or prevent such diseases, but being fluent in two or more languages shows help in the onset of the disease with the help of other medications. Simply put, research shows that being bilingual helps combat the onset of these diseases, but does not prevent
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