In this article, I review research examining the effect of bilingualism on children's cognitive
development and in particular, executive function. I describe studies reporting bilingual …

Bilingual children have been shown to outperform monolingual children on tasks measuring
executive functioning skills. This advantage is usually attributed to bilinguals' extensive …

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

This chapter examines the idea that much of the confusion and contradictory evidence about
the relation between bilingualism and executive function can be traced to an over …

There is considerable debate about whether bilingual children have an advantage in
executive functioning relative to monolingual children. In the current meta-analysis, we …

When bilinguals speak, both fluent language systems become activated in parallel and exert
an influence on speech production. As a consequence of maintaining separation between …

The present study used a behavioral version of an anti-saccade task, called the 'faces task',
developed by [Bialystok, E., Craik, FIM, & Ryan, J.(2006). Executive control in a modified anti …

Past studies examining the cognitive function of bilingual school-aged children have pointed
to enhancements in areas of executive control relative to age-matched monolingual …

Learning a second language in childhood is inherently advantageous for communication.
However, parents, educators and scientists have been interested in determining whether …

Attention difficulty is associated with poor performance on executive functioning (EF) tasks,
yet EF is enhanced in bilingual children. However, no research to date has investigated the …