Cognitive Development in Bilingual Instruction

Cognitive Development in Bilingual Children: a Case for Bilingual Instruction in Early Childhood Education

This article overviews the research on the complex relationship between bilingualism and cognitive development and the important implications of this relationship for bilingual education. Recent studies are discussed that examine the cognitive development in bilingual children with regard to metalinguistic awareness, concept formation, and analogical reasoning. A case is made for additive bilin...

Developing a based-on play cognitive-behavioral educational package and determining its effectiveness on improving the language disorders and social adjustment of bilingual children

Background: The present study was conducted with the aim of developing a game-based cognitive-behavioral educational package and determining its effectiveness on improving the receptive language disorders and social adjustment of bilingual children. Methods:  The current study was applied in terms of purpose and in terms of the nature of the data, it was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post...

Bilingual effects on cognitive and linguistic development: role of language, cultural background, and education.

A total of 104 six-year-old children belonging to 4 groups (English monolinguals, Chinese-English bilinguals, French-English bilinguals, Spanish-English bilinguals) were compared on 3 verbal tasks and 1 nonverbal executive control task to examine the generality of the bilingual effects on development. Bilingual groups differed in degree of similarity between languages, cultural background, and ...

The Effect of Cognitive Strategy-based Grammar Instruction on Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners' Development of both Structural Knowledge and Strategy Use

English Vocabulary Learning Strategies: the Case of Iranian Monolinguals vs. Bilinguals

The main objective of the present study was to investigate the differences between Iranian EFL monolinguals and bilinguals in terms of vocabulary language learning strategies. In fact, it was an attempt to investigate whether bilingual/ monolingual learners differ significantly in using vocabulary learning strategies. To this end, 70 EFL, 45 monolingual (Persian) and 25 bilingual (Arabic-Persia...