Issues related to bilingualism and the effects which might have on language learners’ cognitive and meta-cognitive variables have attracted the attention of a couple of researchers in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA).Since a couple of decades ago, there has been a plethora of studies on cognitive and metacognitive differences between bilinguals and monolinguals. However, the impac...

The use of two or more languages is common in most of the world. Yet, until recently, bilingualism was considered to be a complicating factor for language processing, cognition, and the brain. The past 20 years have witnessed an upsurge of research on bilingualism to examine language acquisition and processing, their cognitive and neural bases, and the consequences that bilingualism holds for c...

DARREN TANNER, JUDITH MCLAUGHLIN, JULIA HERSCHENSOHN and LEE OSTERHOUT Bilingualism: Language and Cognition / Volume 16 / Special Issue 02 / April 2013, pp 367 ­ 382 DOI: 10.1017/S1366728912000302, Published online: 16 August 2012 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1366728912000302 How to cite this article: DARREN TANNER, JUDITH MCLAUGHLIN, JULIA HERSCHENSOHN and LEE ...

Two-way immersion, where language majority and language minority children develop bilingualism together, has grown phenomenally in the U.S, even while traditional bilingual education comes increasingly under attack in the current political climate. Two-way immersion is much less threatening to critics who resent having to support special programs for language minority children and who fear that...

An important question in research about bilingualism is whether translation from a second language (L2) to the native language (L1) is semantically mediated or whether it occurs through word associations at the lexical level. Recent research has shown that both L1 and L2 number word translation imply semantic access, suggesting strong L2 lexicosemantic mappings for number words (Duyck & Brysbae...