Previous work has shown that bilingualism is associated with more effective controlled processing in children; the assumption is that the constant management of 2 competing languages enhances executive functions (E. Bialystok, 2001). The present research attempted to determine whether this bilingual advantage persists for adults and whether bilingualism attenuates the negative effects of aging ...

Most people in the world speak more than one language, making bilingualism the norm rather than the exception. Furthermore, speakers generally also move their hands – they gesture – in coordination with speech and language in nontrivial ways. Bilingualism and multimodality should thus be on research agendas focused on the nature of linguistic systems and language use in context, yet they are of...

A series of discoveries in the last two decades has changed the way we think about bilingualism and its implications for language and cognition. One is that both languages are always active. The parallel activation of the two languages is thought to give rise to competition that imposes demands on the bilingual to control the language not in use to achieve fluency in the target language. The se...

As globalization advances, more people become bilingual or multilingual. Indeed, in the age of globalization, where people can connect through Internet to someone else across the globe, where the mass media provides information from around the globe, and where migration means multilingual and multicultural societies, the necessity of speaking more than a single language becomes more evident as ...

Abstract In the present meta-analysis, we investigated robustness and magnitude of Foreign Language Effect (FLE) – that is, putative effect language context (native versus foreign language) on decision-making. We also whether FLE is moderated by experience measured second age acquisition proficiency or methodological choices types decision problems adopted, presentation modality tasks administe...

Talking about motion events in L2 is done different ways by speakers on occasions. This due to multiple factors, typological, psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic, which interact play a role acquisition use. These factors can sometimes lead the same types of produce very outputs or similar outputs. In order capture this diversity outcomes CASP (Complex Adaptive System Principles) for Bilinguali...

presenting a brief description of bilingualism and its correlation with cognitive development and 3rd language learning, the present research primarily aims to compare the knowledge of english vocabulary and grammar in a sample of monolingual and bilingual high school students (fourth graders) of fars and khuzestan provinces in iran. to fulfill this objective, 448 monolingual and bilingual stud...