Learning to Code in a Foreign Language

The idea that schools could allow students to fulfill a foreign language requirement by taking coding makes so much sense in light of your data. There's a lot of rich and nuanced data here, but it turns out that knowing languages in general get you quite a bump in learning programming language. In our Chinese English bilinguals, their Chinese proficiency was the strongest predictor of their ability to produce code. Whereas debugging relied more heavily on English skills.