"我们的研究发现，双语有着显而易见的好处，这不仅仅体现在语言上，它对算数、解决问题或创造性思考等方面都有益处。我们也对孩子们的词汇进行了评估，对词语理解的评估内容比对词语了解的相关内容要多一些 。双语儿童在描述的细节和丰富程度上，再一次体现出了显著的差异。

"We also found they had an aptitude for selective attention- the ability to identify and focus on information which is important, while filtering out what is not- which could come from the ‘code-switching' of thinking in two different languages."

"我们发现他们有选择性注意的倾向，他们有发现并关注重要信息而忽略不重要信息的能力，这可能来自两种语言不同思维的‘代码转换'。"

In the study, a total of 121 children in Scotland and Sardinia- 62 of them bilingual- were set tasks in which they were asked to reproduce patterns of coloured blocks, to repeat orally a series of numbers, to give clear definitions of words and to resolve mentally a set of arithmetic problems. The tasks were all set in English or Italian and the children taking part were aged around nine.

在研究中，共有121名儿童，他们分别来自苏格兰岛和撒丁岛——其中62名是双语儿童。给这些儿童布置了一些任务，要求他们重现彩色方块的图案、口头重复一串数字，对词语给出清晰的解释，并只通过思考来解决一系列算数问题。任务都是用英语或意大利语说明的，参与的儿童年龄在9岁左右。

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