Most research reporting that bilingual children exhibit enhanced cognitive skills and social awareness relative to their monolingual peers focusses on children raised and educated bilingually, making it difficult to pinpoint the degree of second language exposure necessary for such advantages to materialise. The current study measures the social and cognitive skills of Spanish children educated bilingually yet raised monolingually to explore (a) whether bilingual education alone confers advantages, and (b) whether greater second language exposure is key to producing them. It compares three groups of monolingually-raised children in their first year of primary education (i.e. 6–7 years old): one group educated in mainstream ‘monolingual’ edu...
Bilinguals purportedly outperform monolinguals in non-verbal tasks of cognitive control (the ‘biling...
Background: The UK is linguistically rich, but faces a decline in language learning, with no officia...
First published: 30 June 2020Bilingualism is a powerful experiential factor, and its effects have be...
Our longitudinal study examined cognitive, social, and vocabulary skills of bilingually-educated, ye...
Early bilingual experience has been shown to be beneficial to general cognitive skills. Young biling...
Using advanced quantitative methods, this article demonstrates that cumulative exposure to the schoo...
Bilingual children perform better than monolingual children in tasks that demand executive control. ...
Bilingual speakers have shown better performance than their monolingual peers on tasks that examine ...
https://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/ugresearch/2015/Psychology/16/thumbnail.jpgBilingu...
Language learning is an incredible process for children. The study aims to assess the effect of earl...
Many studies have shown that bilingual children outperform monolinguals on tasks testing executive f...
The overall aim of this study is, as suggested by Bialystok (2009), to investigate whether bilingual...
Many studies have shown that bilingual children outperform monolinguals on tasks testing executive f...
The mastery of two languages provides bilingual speakers cognitive benefits over monolinguals, parti...
The current study aimed at investigating the performance of bilingual children with English as an ad...
Bilinguals purportedly outperform monolinguals in non-verbal tasks of cognitive control (the ‘biling...
Background: The UK is linguistically rich, but faces a decline in language learning, with no officia...
First published: 30 June 2020Bilingualism is a powerful experiential factor, and its effects have be...
Our longitudinal study examined cognitive, social, and vocabulary skills of bilingually-educated, ye...
Early bilingual experience has been shown to be beneficial to general cognitive skills. Young biling...
Using advanced quantitative methods, this article demonstrates that cumulative exposure to the schoo...
Bilingual children perform better than monolingual children in tasks that demand executive control. ...
Bilingual speakers have shown better performance than their monolingual peers on tasks that examine ...
https://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/ugresearch/2015/Psychology/16/thumbnail.jpgBilingu...
Language learning is an incredible process for children. The study aims to assess the effect of earl...
Many studies have shown that bilingual children outperform monolinguals on tasks testing executive f...
The overall aim of this study is, as suggested by Bialystok (2009), to investigate whether bilingual...
Many studies have shown that bilingual children outperform monolinguals on tasks testing executive f...
The mastery of two languages provides bilingual speakers cognitive benefits over monolinguals, parti...
The current study aimed at investigating the performance of bilingual children with English as an ad...
Bilinguals purportedly outperform monolinguals in non-verbal tasks of cognitive control (the ‘biling...
Background: The UK is linguistically rich, but faces a decline in language learning, with no officia...
First published: 30 June 2020Bilingualism is a powerful experiential factor, and its effects have be...