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Cognitive Advantages of Bilingual Children in Different Sociolinguistic Contexts

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
Many studies have shown that bilingual children outperform monolinguals on tasks testing executive functioning, but other studies have not revealed any effect of bilingualism.
Leonie Cornips
exaly   +2 more sources

Bilinguals and Bilingualism

2014
The chapter suggests that privileged bilingual children whose parents create experiences for them in which they hear and use language appropriate for different contexts and different uses have a richer access to the language. In bilingual communities, minority children have limited access to standard monolingual dialects and registers. The chapter uses
Heather Brookes   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Category Interference in Translation and Picture Naming: Evidence for Asymmetric Connections Between Bilingual Memory Representations

, 1994
Three experiments are reported in which picture naming and bilingual translation were performed in the context of semantically categorized or randomized lists. In Experiments 1 and 3 picture naming and bilingual translation were slower in the categorized
J. Kroll, E. Stewart
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

2014
This article presents a selection of the key literature on bilingualism and bilingual education and gives readers access to the international research on the multiplicity of topics that make up these fields. While the term “bilingualism” is consistently used throughout this article, it should also be taken as incorporating multilingualism. The question
Lincoln I. Dam, Stephen May
openaire   +1 more source

Bilinguality and Bilingualism

2000
This updated and revised edition of Hamers and Blanc's successful textbook presents state-of-the-art knowledge about languages in contact from individual bilingualism (or bilinguality) to societal bilingualism. It is both multi- and interdisciplinary in approach, and analyses bilingualism at individual, interpersonal, and societal levels.
Michel H. A. Blanc, Josiane F. Hamers
openaire   +2 more sources

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