Is bilingualism related to a cognitive advantage in children? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

HL Gunnerud, D Ten Braak, EKL Reikerås… - Psychological …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Bilingual people are often claimed to have an advantage over monolingual people in
cognitive processing owing to their ability to learn and use two languages. This advantage is …

Describing bilinguals: A systematic review of labels and descriptions used in the literature between 2005–2015

S Surrain, G Luk - Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2019 - cambridge.org
Recent years have seen a surge in research comparing bilinguals to monolinguals, yet
synthesizing this literature is complicated by the diversity of language and social …

The bilingual advantage in children's executive functioning is not related to language status: A meta-analytic review

CJ Lowe, I Cho, SF Goldsmith… - Psychological …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
There is considerable debate about whether bilingual children have an advantage in
executive functioning relative to monolingual children. In the current meta-analysis, we …

The effects of bilingualism on executive functions: An updated quantitative analysis

JG Grundy - Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 2020 - Springer
Several researchers have suggested that learning and using a second language requires
domain-general executive functions, and many have shown that bilinguals outperform …

Meta-analysis reveals a bilingual advantage that is dependent on task and age

AT Ware, M Kirkovski, JAG Lum - Frontiers in psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Debate continues on whether a bilingual advantage exists with respect to executive
functioning. This report synthesized the results of 170 studies to test whether the bilingual …

On the phantom-like appearance of bilingualism effects on neurocognition:(How) should we proceed?

E Leivada, M Westergaard, JA Duñabeitia… - Bilingualism …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Numerous studies have argued that bilingualism has effects on cognitive functions.
Recently, in light of increasingly mixed empirical results, this claim has been challenged …

Is there a bilingual advantage on interference-control tasks? A multiverse meta-analysis of global reaction time and interference cost

S Donnelly, PJ Brooks, BD Homer - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2019 - Springer
A contentious issue in contemporary psycholinguistics is whether bilingualism enhances
executive functions. Here, we report a meta-analysis of 80 studies (253 effect sizes) …

[HTML][HTML] Cognitive advantages of bilingual children in different sociolinguistic contexts

E Blom, T Boerma, E Bosma, L Cornips… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Many studies have shown that bilingual children outperform monolinguals on tasks testing
executive functioning, but other studies have not revealed any effect of bilingualism. In this …

Benefits of foreign language learning and bilingualism: An analysis of published empirical research 2012–2019

R Fox, O Corretjer, K Webb - Foreign Language Annals, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The 21st century has seen a strong upward trajectory in empirical research on the multiple
benefits that foreign language/world language learning and bilingualism can afford to both …

The bilingual advantage debate: Quantity and quality of the evidence

K Paap - The handbook of the neuroscience of multilingualism, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The bilingual advantage hypothesis is difficult to test for many reasons and one is the
complexity of the executive functioning (EF) construct. The newest wave of meta‐anlayses …