Although working memory (WM) figures centrally in many theories of second language (L2)
proficiency development and processing, some have argued that the importance of WM is …

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 …

Is acquiring a third language the same as acquiring a second? Are all instances of non-
native language acquisition simply one and the same? In this first book-length study of the …

Reading in a Second Language: Moving from Theory to Practice Bill Grabe Table of
Contents Preface Section I: Foundations of Reading Comprehension 1. The Nature of …

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

This study investigated the possibility that lifelong bilingualism may lead to enhanced
efficiency in the ability to shift between mental sets. We compared the performance of …

Psycholinguistics–the field of science that examines the mental processes and knowledge
structures involved in the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language–had a …

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 …

Brysbaert and Duyck (this issue) suggest that it is time to abandon the Revised Hierarchical
Model (Kroll and Stewart, 1994) in favor of connectionist models such as BIA+ (Dijkstra and …

Code-switching—the alternating use of two languages in the same stretch of discourse by a
bilingual speaker—is a dominant topic in the study of bilingualism and a phenomenon that …