Because of enduring experience of managing two languages, bilinguals have been argued
to develop superior executive functioning compared with monolinguals. Despite extensive …

According to some estimates, more than half of the world's population is multilingual to some
extent. Because of the centrality of language use to human experience and the deep …

Proficient bilinguals use two languages actively, but the contexts in which they do so may
differ dramatically. The present study asked what consequences the contexts of language …

Contemporary research on bilingualism has been framed by two major discoveries. In the
realm of language processing, studies of comprehension and production show that …

Bilinguals often outperform monolinguals on executive function tasks, including tasks that
tap cognitive flexibility, conflict monitoring, and task-switching abilities. Some have …

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 …

This book is intended to give you a broad overview of Applied Linguistics. It will introduce
you to important areas in the field, and familiarize you with the key issues in each of those …

In this article we discuss the role of desirable difficulties in vocabulary learning from two
perspectives, one having to do with identifying conditions of learning that impose initial …

The primary goal of research on the functional and neural architecture of bilingualism is to
elucidate how bilingual individuals' language architecture is organized such that they can …

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a
speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use. The effects …