Bilingual people are often claimed to have an advantage over monolingual people in
cognitive processing owing to their ability to learn and use two languages. This advantage is …

The purpose of this study was to determine the relation between reading and working
memory (WM) in the context of 3 major theories: the domain-specificity theory (debate) of …

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

A number of studies have documented the cognitive outcomes associated with bilingualism.
To gain a clear understanding of the extent and diversity of these cognitive outcomes, the …

This volume reports the findings of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority
Children and Youth. The formal charge to the panel—a distinguished group of expert …

Bilinguals often outperform monolinguals on executive function tasks, including tasks that
tap cognitive flexibility, conflict monitoring, and task-switching abilities. Some have …

We report a systematic meta-analytic review of studies comparing reading comprehension
and its underlying components (language comprehension, decoding, and phonological …

We present a meta‐analysis of cross‐linguistic transfer of oral language (vocabulary and
listening comprehension), phonology (decoding and phonological awareness) and reading …

This study investigated the relationship between foreign language (FL) anxiety and
achievement in that language. The role of the FL teacher as perceived by the learners was …

Sixteen meta-analyses were conducted to examine relations of typically developing
bilingual immigrant-background children's oral language proficiency in their first and second …