The cognitive and linguistic processes involved in the acquisition and use of two languages
are systematically different from those processes engaged in monolingual language use …

Studies often report that bilingual participants possess a smaller vocabulary in the language
of testing than monolinguals, especially in research with children. However, each study is …

The “weaker links” hypothesis proposes that bilinguals are disadvantaged relative to
monolinguals on speaking tasks because they divide frequency-of-use between two …

This study compares lexical access and expressive and receptive vocabulary development
in monolingual and bilingual toddlers. More specifically, the link between vocabulary size …

To explore the joint effect of reading difficulties (RD) and bilingualism on executive functions,
190 children of four groups of 9–12 year‐olds (41 bilinguals with RD, 45 monolinguals with …

It has been debated how bilinguals select the intended language and prevent interference
from the unintended language when speaking. Here, we studied the nature of the mental …

To investigate the possibility that knowledge of two languages influences the nature of
semantic representations, bilinguals and monolinguals were compared in a word …

OVER THIRTY YEARS AGO, I was working on trying to understand the cognitive processes
involved in adult second language learning. The problem was surprisingly intractable: the …

Abstract Niloufar Jalali-Moghadam (2015): Childhood Bilingualism and Reading Difficulties:
Insights from Cognition and Pedagogy. Örebro studies in Psychology 34. We are living in a …

Orthographic and phonological coding during second language (L2) learning in a school
context was examined in the present work. Masked priming techniques revealed that lexical …