Because of enduring experience of managing two languages, bilinguals have been argued
to develop superior executive functioning compared with monolinguals. Despite extensive …

Recently, doubts were raised about the existence of the bilingual advantage in cognitive
control. The aim of the present review was to investigate the bilingual advantage and its …

The hypothesis that managing two languages enhances general executive functioning is
examined. More than 80% of the tests for bilingual advantages conducted after 2011 yield …

Using data from seven cohorts of language immersion lottery applicants in a large, urban
school district, we estimate the causal effects of immersion programs on students' test scores …

Several researchers have suggested that learning and using a second language requires
domain-general executive functions, and many have shown that bilinguals outperform …

The question whether being bilingual yields cognitive benefits is highly controversial with
prior studies providing inconsistent results. Failures to replicate the bilingual advantage …

A contentious issue in contemporary psycholinguistics is whether bilingualism enhances
executive functions. Here, we report a meta-analysis of 80 studies (253 effect sizes) …

Debate continues on whether a bilingual advantage exists with respect to executive
functioning. This report synthesized the results of 170 studies to test whether the bilingual …

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 …

Bilingualism and its cognitive impacts have drawn increasing interest. Recently,
inconsistencies in the findings have raised discussions on what might have caused such …