Various studies have shown that bilingual children need a certain degree of proficiency in both languages before their bilingual experiences enhance their executive functioning (EF). In the current study, we investigated if degree of bilingualism in Frisian-Dutch children influenced EF and if this effect was sustained over a 3-year period. To this end, longitudinal data were analyzed from 120 F...

Citation: Grundy JG and Anderson JAE (2017) Commentary: The Relationship of Bilingualism Compared to Monolingualism to the Risk of Cognitive Decline or Dementia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Front. Aging Neurosci. 9:344. doi: 10.3389/fnagi.2017.00344 Commentary: The Relationship of Bilingualism Compared to Monolingualism to the Risk of Cognitive Decline or Dementia: A Systematic Revie...

Translanguaging has opened up spaces to recognize the dynamic multilingualism of students in classrooms taught dominant languages, and problematized concepts such as ‘additive bilingualism’. This article aims further explore two issues that remain little understood. First, translanguaging is often seen simply acknowledgement or use multilingual students’ ‘first language’. clarifies this a misun...

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition / FirstView Article / August 2016, pp 1 10 DOI: 10.1017/S1366728916000729, Published online: 29 July 2016 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1366728916000729 How to cite this article: ANGELA GRANT and NANCY DENNIS Increased processing speed in young adult bilinguals: evidence from source memory judgments. Bilingualism: Language and...

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition / FirstView Article / December 2014, pp 1 6 DOI: 10.1017/S1366728914000273, Published online: 29 December 2014 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1366728914000273 How to cite this article: MELODY WISEHEART, MYTHILI VISWANATHAN and ELLEN BIALYSTOK Flexibility in task switching by monolinguals and bilinguals. Bilingualism: Language a...

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition / FirstView Article / August 2016, pp 1 2 DOI: 10.1017/S136672891600081X, Published online: 01 August 2016 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S136672891600081X How to cite this article: PHILLIP HAMRICK and MICHAEL T. ULLMAN A neurocognitive perspective on retrieval interference in L2 sentence processing. Bilingualism: Language and C...

This study investigated whether musical training and bilingualism are associated with enhancements in specific components of executive function, namely, task switching and dual-task performance. Participants (n = 153) belonging to one of four groups (monolingual musician, bilingual musician, bilingual non-musician, or monolingual non-musician) were matched on age and socioeconomic status and ad...

We investigated the effects of age as well as the linked factors of education and bilingualism on confrontation naming in rural Kashmir by creating a culturally appropriate naming test with pictures of 60 objects. We recruited 48 cognitively normal participants whose ages ranged from 18 to 28 and from 60 to 85. Participants in our study were illiterate monolinguals (N = 18) and educated Kashmir...