Bilinguialism Gives Children Cognitive Advantage

Date

2012

Authors

Bialystok, Ellen

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Abstract

Bilingual children perform better than monolingual children in tasks that demand executive control. They are able to focus better on a task, in the presence of distractions.

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Education, Children and Youth, Psychology

Citation

Bialystok, E. (2010). Global-local and trail-making tasks by monolingual and bilingual children: Beyond inhibition. Developmental Psychology, 46(1), 93-105.