IntroductionWith the rapid development of globalization, international business, and education over the last century, bilingualism has become a necessary skill to enable communication across national boundaries and overcome cultural differences. This social phenomenon has led to a rapid expansion of bilingual education and, according to the Hanen Center, the number of bilinguals today is equivalent to that of monolinguals. However, this leads to a fundamental question: How do bilinguals and monolinguals differ in their thinking process? To understand this distinction, this essay will answer the question: discuss how the advantages and disadvantages of bilingualism reflect the possible different reserves of linguistic memory. Therefore, language acquisition, potential memory patterns in the bilingual brain, and the cognitive advantages and disadvantages of bilingualism observed in children will be explored, in order to evaluate whether the expansion of bilingualism has a positive influence on the world.DiscussionLanguage Acquisition of the bilingual. Children Before examining the effects of bilingualism, it is necessary to investigate the linguistic acquisition of two or more radically different languages, since this process is significant in the formation of a bilingual's linguistic representation and therefore in the impacts of bilingualism that he or she experiences. According to the Hanen Center's article, "Bilingualism in Young Children," children can learn multiple languages ​​in two ways: simultaneous acquisition, in which children are exposed to bilingual environments from birth, and sequential acquisition, in which children learn their second language when “the first language is well established (generally after age three)” (Lowry, “Bilingual...... middle of paper ......ilingualism in Young Children: Separating Fact from Fiction. Hanen Centre. Web. 30 May 2014. Newcastle University. "Bilinguals see the world differently, suggests ScienceDaily", 15 March 2011. Web. 30 May 2014. "BrainFacts.org". for Neuroscience, September 1, 2008. Web. May 30, 2014. .Schwartz, Casey. “Why it's smart to be bilingual.” 2014. Swift, Diana. “Bilingualism and the Better Brain” 138.9 (2012). Cengage Learning . 30 May 2014.