Accumulated recent research suggests that prior knowledge of multiple languages leads to
advantages in learning additional languages. In the current article, we review studies …

The right of Åsta Haukås, Camilla Bjørke and Magne Dypedahl to be identified as the
authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been …

A series of discoveries in the past two decades has changed the way we think about
bilingualism and its implications for language and cognition. One is that both of the …

Increased attention to genre in writing studies has brought a proliferation of new terms and
concepts for capturing the complexity of writers' knowledge about genres, including genre …

The mastery of two languages provides bilingual speakers with cognitive benefits over
monolinguals, particularly on cognitive flexibility and selective attention. However, extant …

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 …

Bilingual older adults typically have better performance on tasks of executive control (EC)
than do their monolingual peers, but differences in brain activity due to language experience …

Crosslinguistic Influence and Second Language Learning provides a comprehensive
overview of what is currently known about prior language knowledge and experience in …

Several investigations report a positive effect of childhood bilingualism on executive control
(EC). An issue that has remained largely unexamined is the role of the typological distance …

A growing body of research suggests that musical experience and ability are related to a
variety of cognitive abilities, including executive functioning (EF). However, it is not yet clear …