🚀 go-pugleaf

>Your contentions may be merely biased opions!! We do not know, in  the absence
>of emprical, experimental  data, done with perhaps double blind experiments,
>that learning a foreign language itself is EVEN a factor in the purported
>ehnhaced learning of the native language (for many of us here, English).

There is much empirical data from Canadian studies of bilingual 
(French/English) education that tends to indicate that bilingual education
improves native language ability, and, indeed, general scholastic ability.
[My younger sister was in one of the early French Immersion classes that
participated in one of these studies]. These were _observational_, rather
than experimental, studies in that they observed progress of ongoing classes,
rather than forming proper control groups - but the studies have attempted
to isolate features like socioeconomic status, etc.

Now, to which newsgroup shall we adjourn this discussion to?