The ability to speak two languages often marvels monolinguals, although bilinguals report no difficulties in achieving this feat. Here, we examine how learning and using two …
V Cook - The Cambridge handbook of linguistic multi …, 2016 - cambridge.org
This chapter introduces the concept of linguistic multi-competence and sets the scene for the rest of the book. It looks first at issues of definition and then at three premises that have …
JG Grundy, K Timmer - Second Language Research, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Bilinguals often outperform monolinguals on executive function tasks, including tasks that tap cognitive flexibility, conflict monitoring, and task-switching abilities. Some have …
Second Language Learning and Language Teaching provides an introduction to the application of second language acquisition research to language teaching. Assuming no …
We describe the key features of the visual world paradigm and review the main research areas where it has been used. In our discussion we highlight that the paradigm provides …
A Prior, B MacWhinney - Bilingualism: Language and cognition, 2010 - cambridge.org
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 …
This book is the outcome of over 25 years of research into neurolinguistic aspects of bilingualism. It will therefore draw extensively on scattered previously published material …
Even though more than half the world's population is bilingual, the study of bilinguals has lagged behind that of monolinguals. With this book, which draws on twenty-five years of the …
Psycholinguistics–the field of science that examines the mental processes and knowledge structures involved in the acquisition, comprehension, and production of language–had a …