the present study seeks to find out whether or not higher scores of bilingual and multilingual speakers in raven’s intelligence test owe a debt to their bi/ multilingualism. to this end, 50 abridged versions of raven’s test were randomly distributed among a population of almost 200 freshman university students out of which forty four booklets were returned at the end of administration sessions....

The article reports research investigating the way bilingualism affects cognitive and linguistic performance across the lifespan. In general, bilingualism appears to have both benefits and costs. Regarding costs, bilinguals typically have lower formal language proficiency than monolinguals do; for example, they have smaller vocabularies and weaker access to lexical items. The benefits, however,...

Rejoyoso Village is a village with two ethnicities, namely Javanese and Madura. was chosen as research area by reason of the existence bilingualism in 70% community. Bilingualism question mastery regional languages first language second (Javanese Madura). dominant hamlets Wotgalih Balong. Madurese Sukosari Karangsuko Hamlets. This focuses on domains which influence communication vitality Rejoyo...

The present study examined whether bilingualism facilitates acquisition of novel words in adults with different language histories. Word-learning performance was tested in monolingual English speakers, early English-Spanish bilinguals, and early English-Mandarin bilinguals. Novel words were phonologically unfamiliar to all participants, and they were acquired in association with their English t...

Literature on bilingualism and cognition is characterised by a large amount of conflicting evidence. In some studies, bilinguals perform better then monolinguals on executive tasks involving inhibition, monitoring and switching but are slower on tasks of lexical processing. Other studies don’t find any significant effects and challenge the very existence of cognitive differences between monolin...

In past literature authors raised a significant issue of role intelligence in learning different languages. Whether an intelligent individual learns two or more languages easily who has learnt perform better on tests intelligence. second language, been considered as effective factor. Acknowledging the above issue, heterogeneous sample 38 bilinguals (17 boys and 21 girls) 44 monolinguals (19 25 ...