The debate concerning a potential bilingual cognitive advantage is ongoing but has turned
to focus on understanding factors modulating the appearance of bilingual effects. The …

Past studies have predominantly focused on how self-efficacy and motivation facilitate
academic achievement. However, the opposite might also hold with higher academic …

Input is considered one of the most important factors in the acquisition of lexical and
grammatical skills. Input has been found to interact with other factors, such as learner …

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Bilingualism presents an introduction to the neural bases
and cognitive processes of the bilingual brain. It covers foundational knowledge required for …

Abstract Introduction: The Better Start Literacy Approach is an example of a multi-tiered
system of support (MTSS) to facilitate children's early literacy success. It is set within a …

This study investigated how socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with academic
achievement and English proficiency in an English-medium instruction (EMI) program at a …

Many second-generation immigrant (SGI) students are heritage-bilinguals whose mother
tongue is not their school's instructional language. Adopting sociological and …

This research explored the mediation of self-efficacy and moderation of gender between
socioeconomic status (SES) and foreign language (FL) achievement. A total of 8,906 …

Human cognition develops in interaction with numerous environmental factors. The social
environment is an important context in which development is shaped. Previous studies have …

Decades of research in second language acquisition (SLA) have pursued answers to the
“differential success” question (Larsen-Freeman, 2001, 2018), which refers to the variable …