Jeffrey Kluger explores scientific reasoning behind bilingualism, explaining its many benefits and few disadvantages. He focuses on the importance childhood development and education, while providing research proving its advantages later on in life. Kluger states that bilinguals "seemed to show a greater facility with skills that relied on interpreting symbolic representations, such math or music."
Code switching is explored in Kluger text's taking a different stance on its importance to the one discussed in class. Kluger believes "that this is a short-term disadvantage of bilingualism", while I believe it does not interrupt the flow of a conversation, except the interchange of languages, as it keeps the same structure of conversation. In both cases though, bilingualism is seen as an advantage as it opens up doors for more communication through different cultures.
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