Multi-Lingualism and the Role of Cognitive Powers

Harish Kumar

Abstract


This paper is intended to look into the inter-relation among the development of multi-lingual faculty and the cognitive powers. The inter-relationship study will prove to be of some help in designing the course content for multi-lingual learning and enhancing the cognitive power through the multi-lingual approach of learning.

Keywords


Multi-lingualism, Cognitive power, mental faculty, cognitive learning, multi-language skills

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