bilingual effect on cognition: a study on azari- farsi bilinguals

cognitive aspects of bilingualism have been recently studied by manyresearchers and lots of them have reported bilingual advantage overmonolinguals in some aspects of cognition. given the multitude of bilinguals iniran, further and deeper studies of various aspects of this phenomenon seem torequire. in order to study bilingualism in iran from a cognitive point of view,the present study examines the effect of bilingualism on executive functionsamong azari- persian bilinguals. to serve this purpose, wisconsin card sortingtask was administered to 72 university students (36 bilinguals and 36monolinguals). results suggested bilingual advantage in executive functions ingeneral and flexibility in particular. while the findings confirm those ofprevious similar studies, they can indicate that bilingual advantage is anoutcome of bilingualism in general and is not dependent on the types oflanguages used.