Working memory development in monolingual and bilingual children.
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Bilinguals outperformed monolinguals overall, but again there were larger language group effects in conditions that included more demanding executive function requirements.About:
This article is published in Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.The article was published on 2013-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 382 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Working memory & Short-term memory.read more
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Benefits of being bilingual? The relationship between pupils’ perceptions of teachers’ appreciation of their home language and executive functioning:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether bilingual pupil's perceptions of teachers' appreciation of their home language were of influence on bilingual cognitive advantages, and found that bilingual advantages cannot be dissociated from the influence of the sociolinguistic context of the classroom.
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Irony in a second language : exploring the comprehension of Japanese speakers of English
TL;DR: The authors found that non-native speakers of English understand potentially ironic utterances in a similar way to native speakers, and that irony is one of the final obstacles before achieving near native-speaker fluency.
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Promoting and Maintaining Bilingualism and Biliteracy: Cognitive andBiliteracy Benefits & Strategies for Monolingual Teachers
Debra A. Giambo,Tunde Szecsi +1 more
TL;DR: This paper presented research-based evidence in support of developing and maintaining bilingualism and biliteracy, and submitted that the empirical research support for the benefits of bilingualism, and that the strategies for teachers, especially teachers who do not speak the heritage language of their students, are provided and can be implemented to promote bilingual reading, writing and language skill development.
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Novel-word learning, executive control and working memory: A bilingual advantage
TL;DR: This paper examined the bilingual advantage in attention, working memory and novel-word learning in early sequential Hindi-English bilinguals and found that bilingual learners outperformed monolingual learners on response inhibition, novel word learning and almost all working memory tasks.
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The role of linguistic diversity in the prediction of early reading comprehension: A quantile regression approach
TL;DR: This article investigated whether predictor variables for early reading comprehension differed depending on language background and ability level in English reading comprehension, using both classical and quantile regression analyses, and found that predictor variables differ depending on the language background of the reader.
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The unity and diversity of executive functions and their contributions to complex "Frontal Lobe" tasks: a latent variable analysis.
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The Nature and Organization of Individual Differences in Executive Functions: Four General Conclusions
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TL;DR: It is argued that individual differences in EFs, as measured with simple laboratory tasks, show both unity and diversity and are related to various clinically and societally important phenomena, and show some developmental stability.
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Relating effortful control, executive function, and false belief understanding to emerging math and literacy ability in kindergarten
Clancy Blair,Rachel Peters Razza +1 more
TL;DR: Results indicated that the various aspects of child self-regulation accounted for unique variance in the academic outcomes independent of general intelligence and that the inhibitory control aspect of executive function was a prominent correlate of both early math and reading ability.