Bilingualism and Communicative Benefits

Reshaping the mind: the benefits of bilingualism.

Studies have shown that bilingual individuals consistently outperform their monolingual counterparts on tasks involving executive control. The present paper reviews some of the evidence for this conclusion and relates the findings to the effect of bilingualism on cognitive organisation and to conceptual issues in the structure of executive control. Evidence for the protective effect of bilingua...

Benefits of bilingualism: Evidence from Mormon missionaries

Several studies have argued that learning a foreign language has the potential to increase the general cognitive ability and test scores of students. In this analysis, the Mormon missionary program is used to test whether or not students who were assigned to learn a foreign language performed better in college. The results indicate that the increase in GPA due to serving a Mormon mission is the...

Cognitive Benefits of Bilingualism/Second Language Learning

Bilingualism and L3 Acquisition

مقاله حاضر کنش زبانی دوزبانه‌های آذری‌زبان و تک‌زبانه‌های فارسی‌ زبان را در فرایند یادگیری زبان سوم مورد بررسی قرار می‌دهد. پژوهش‌های موجود درباره توانایی‌های فرازبانی و شناختی زبان‌آموزان‌ کودک حاکی از این است که دوزبانه‌ها با توجه به کسب تجارب قبلی در یادگیری زبان دوم،در فراگیری زبان سوم موفق‌تر بوده و کنش زبانی آنها متفاوت‌تر از تک‌زبانه‌ها خواهد بود. در این تحقیق کنش زبانی دو گروه ده نفری ا...

Cognitive Benefits and Costs of Bilingualism in Elementary School Students: The Case of Mathematical Word Problems

Previous research has emphasized the importance of language for learning mathematics. This is especially true when mathematical problems have to be extracted from a meaningful context, as in arithmetic word problems. Bilingual learners with a low command of the instructional language thus may face challenges when dealing with mathematical concepts. At the same time, speaking two languages can b...