" Perhaps once or twice a decade you read a book that is so lucid, convincing, and
inspirational that you want to order copies for every teacher, administrator, and policymaker …

" Bilingualism in Development explores language and cognitive development in bilingual
children, focusing on the preschool years. It begins by defining what we mean by …

Continuing the case for free voluntary reading set out in the book's 1993 first edition, this
new, updated, and much-looked-for second edition explores new research done on the topic …

The present paper summarizes research showing that bilingualism affects linguistic and
cognitive performance across the lifespan. The effect on linguistic performance is generally …

The human potential for language is based in human biology but makes requirements of the
social environment to be realized. This paper reports evidence regarding (1) the nature of …

Increasingly, children grow up hearing two languages from birth. This comprehensive
textbook explains how children learn to understand and speak those languages. It brings …

Ninety-six participants, who were younger (20 years) or older (68 years) adults and either
monolingual or bilingual, completed tasks assessing working memory, lexical retrieval, and …

1. Language learning at school 132 1.1 Monolingual children 132 1.2 Bilingual children 136
2. L1 attrition in minority-language speaking children 139 2.1 Inuktitut-speaking children in …

Advanced inhibitory control skills have been found in bilingual speakers as compared to
monolingual controls (Bialystok, 1999). We examined whether this effect is generalized to an …

The purpose of this study was to determine if different language measures resulted in the
same classifications of language dominance and proficiency for a group of bilingual pre …