How Languages Build Academic Performance:

• Children who learn a second language show either comparable or enhanced first-language literacy.
• Second-language learners often show enhanced spelling ability as well as superior reading comprehension when they are compared to their monolingual peers.
• Children receiving second-language instruction often show higher achievement in a range of subject areas, including mathematics, science and language arts.
• Learning a second language enhances second-language learners’ grammatical knowledge and awareness of speech sounds and sentence structures.

The above statements come from the Literature on the Impact of Second-Language Learning (2017).

Read Why Learn Languages? Languages Build Academic Performance – a short summary of the benefits of learning a second language.