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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LEARNING MANY LANGUAGES AS A

YOUNG CHILD
1DushatovaShohsanam Baxtiyor qizi
Fergana State University, EFL teacher [Link]@[Link],
2Yusupov Husanboy Faxriddin o’g’li

Fergana State University 3rd year student

husanboyyusupov.777.888@[Link].
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ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT

Received: 14th January 2023 This article informs the important aspects of learning a
Accepted: 23th January 2023 lot of languages to young learners, as well as, the positive
Online: 24th January 2023 impacts to people who speak more than one language
KEY WORDS
have improved memory, problem-solving and critical-
Language, importance,
thinking skill, enhanced concentration, ability to
communication, open-minded,
multitask and better listening skills.
connection, learning, children.
INTRODUCTION
A great deal of scientists mentioned that it is important to learn a second language at an early
age, there are several reasons that respond the question, “Why educate many languages to
young learners?” For example, creating a positive and fun learning environment can supply
youngsters with a powerful foundation for triumph in more advanced lessens later in their
academic careers. Bilingual kids acquire faster and without difficulties, have enhanced
problem solving ability and creativeness, and have more profession opportunities in adult
ages. They also notice that it easier to link with other cultures which makes them more open-
minded and lenient of variety, and they are less probable to experience age-related mental
disease as they reach old age. The most importantly, it is much easier to learn a second
language at a very young age.
In addition, educating the second language is not as heavy as it used to be. Scientists are
continually studying second language acquisition and improving new methodologies to help
children educate faster. And the increasing request of language programs have created a
whole new market of international holiday camps with language courses where young
learners can enjoy their lovely activities and learn a new language at the same period. One of
the great advantages of learning the second language at a young age is that kids learn
languages faster and easier. They have much time to study, less to learn, fewer prohibitions,
and a brain designed for language learning. In brief, educating your kid the second language
from childhood rescues them from having to learn a second language as an adult age. On a
biological level, young learners are like sponges.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
The brain of a kid is created to absorb new information unintentionally. They do this similarly
to the way that we, as adults, unwittingly learn songs’ lyrics, rhythms, and melodies. Dr. Paul
Thompson, a neurology professor at UCLA, and his team argued that the brain systems
particularized in acquiring new languages raise sharply from about six years old till
pubescence. Then these systems primarily shut down and stop increasing between 11 and 15,

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during pubescence. Between the age of 10 and 12, babies can distinguish between all sounds
through all languages. Hereafter, according to their exposure to languages, they are able to
only distinguish between the language sounds which are essential to create meaning. The
Japanese language does not differentiate between the “L” and the “R“ sounds. Japanese kids
before 10 months old, able to hear the varieties between these sounds. Then, between 10 and
12 months old, they lose their ability to distinguish. Another one of the advantages of learning
the second language at a very young age is that young learners think more simply than adults.
They consume less words, easy sentence structures, and think less conceptionally.
Youngsters who are acquiring the second language are not overpowered by the activity of
communicating their concrete conceptions and feelings in their second language. Then, as
these kids progress into adults, they learn to express themselves in both their mother and
second languages. However, adults face the challenging task of translating complicated
sentence structures and abstract apprehension to be able to entirely depict themselves in
their second languages. Can you imagine about the books you read in the childhood compared
to the books you read nowadays? Reminisce it took many years of studying and required
reading to be able to comprehend the texts you are able to read now. The similar applies to
writing, listening, and even speaking. To be able to communicate as you do in your mother
tongue, it took at least 15 years of formal education.
One of the biggest advantages of learning a second language early on is time. Time is on the
learners' side. They have the ability to begin small and ordinary and progress to both
advanced mental and communication levels at the same time. Kids have a great benefit over
adults as second language learners. Young generation who learn the second language become
adult to be expert creative thinkers and problem-solvers. The brains of children experience a
permanent workout from childhood as they try to clarify which language to speak and when.
Additionally, scientists have noticed that bilingual and enhanced problem-solving skilled
children are better at planning, multi-tasking and concentrating as well as they score higher
on standardized tests. By educating your children the second language at a young age, you
may direct them to success.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Bilingual children are permanently experiencing a mental training as they clarify through
more than one language method to communicate. Researchers and teachers discouraged
second language learning in the 20th century. The second language was thought to intervene
with kids’ cognitive and intellectual development. However, there is facts that interference of
language systems is experienced by bilingual children, it results that the internal controversy
that bilingual kids experience prepares them to be skillful problem solvers. Collective facts
from several studies illustrates that learning the second language enhance the brain’s
executive function. This means that bilingual kids are better at:
Problem solving
Planning
Concentration
Multitasking
Increased exam scores are one of the many advantages of learning a second language at a
young age. Learning a second language helps students do better on standardized tests like the

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SAT verbal part and the American College Test (ACT). The reality that a student's test results
improve the more time they spend studying a second language. Another benefit of acquiring a
second language at a young age is the motivation to be creative. Numerous studies have
supported it. Language developing is thought to progress by usual processes of learning in
which children get the forms, meanings, and consume of words and expressions from the
linguistic input. Youngsters often begin reproducing the words that they are repetitive
exposed to. The system in which we improve language skills is general, however, the main
discussion is how the rules of syntax are acquired. There are theories of syntactic
development separated two major groups: an empiricist account by which kids learn all of the
syntactic rules from the linguistic input, and a nativist approach by which other principles of
syntax are inborn and are transferred through the humans’ genomes.
The nativist theory, suggested by Noam Chomsky, mentioned that language is an unusual
human performance, and able to be attributed to either " the millions of years of evolution" or
" the principles of neural organization that might be even more profoundly grounded in
physical law". Chomsky argued [5.25] that a lot off kids have an innate language acquiring
device (LAD). In theory, the LAD is a space of the brain which has a set of universal syntactic
rules for whole languages. This device supports learners with the quality to make sense of
knowledge and build novel sentences with minimum external input and little experience.
Chomsky's mentioned that is consist upon the opinion that what youngsters hear—their
linguistic input—is scanty to interpret how they come to learn language. He notes that
linguistic input from the environment is limited and full of mistakes. That is why, it is
impossible for kids to learn linguistic information merely from their environment this view
assumed by nativists. On the other hand, children acquire this LAD, the fact that, they can
learn language in spite of incompleteness of information from their environment. Their scale
to acquire language is also attributed to the theory of common grammar (UG), that posits the
certain set of structural rules are inborn to people, autonomous of sensory adventure. This
sign has controlled linguistic theory for more than fifty years and maintained highly
influential, as evidenced by the pile of articles in books and journals. The empiricist theory
suggests, contra Chomsky, that there is adequate information in the linguistic input kids
acquire that is why, there is no require to assume an inborn language acquisition device
exists. Rather than the LAD brings out specifically for language, empiricists consider that
general brain progresses are competent for language acquisition. While this process, it is
essential for the kid to actively engross with their environment.
CONCLUSION
For the children to learn language, the parents or caregivers adopts a specific way of properly
communicating with the children; this is familiar as child-directed speech (CDS). CDS is
consumed so that children can get the important linguistic information needed for their
language. Empiricism is a common method and occasionally goes along with the interactionist
approach. The statistical language acquisition, that falls down under empiricist theory,
suggests that babies acquire language by means of example concept.
The tests are called the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) are one of the most used
creativity tests created by Ellis Paul Torrance in 1962. These tests are created to admeasure

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“divergent thinking” or thinking outside the norm, thinking creatively. They identify
participants’ divergent thinking in four areas: flexibility, fluency, elaboration, and originality.

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