Emerging bilingualism: Dissociating advantages for metalinguistic awareness and executive control
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Running Title: Bilingualism and Cognition: a Review of a Metalinguistic Task of Phonological Awareness in Bilingual
Certain aspects of meta-linguistic awareness are known to be essential for bilingual children’s literacy acquisition. Phonological awareness is one of these skills. Beginning with a discussion of a pivotal developmental research model of control & analysis of cognitive skills in bilinguals, this review will discuss several studies that explored phonological awareness in bilinguals who knew diff...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognition
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0010-0277
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2011.08.003