Cognitive Development in Bilingual Children: a Case for Bilingual Instruction in Early Childhood Education
نویسنده
چکیده
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 bilingual instruction in early childhood programs as a means of reinforcing the productive and receptive knowledge of the first language during this critical period of linguistic, social, and cognitive
منابع مشابه
Comparison of the Dimensions of Executive Functions in Monolingual and Bilingual Children
Objective: This study aimed to compare the executive functioning between bilingual and monolingual children. Methods: We recruited a total of 200 children, all under 5-years old, who participated in a cross-sectional study. These participants were separated into two groups based on their enrollment in a second language program. Group one consisted of children enrolled in a second language prog...
متن کاملDeveloping 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...
متن کاملAttentional Control in Early and Later Bilingual Children.
This study examined differences in attentional control among school-age children who were monolingual English speakers, early childhood Spanish-English bilinguals who began speaking both languages by age 3, and later childhood Spanish-English bilingual children who began speaking English after age 3. Children's attentional control was tested using the Attention Network Test (ANT). All language ...
متن کاملlanguage development and lexical awareness of bilingual (Azeri -Persian) hard of hearing impaired children
The Relationship between Mean Length of utterance (MLU), Lexical Richness and syntactical and lexical metalinguistic Awareness in Bilingual (Turkish-Persian) normal and hearing impaired Children Objectives: Regarding the impact of hearing loss on language development and metalinguistic skill and being language development different from metalinguistic skill in bilingual children, studying of...
متن کاملThe Cognitive Development of Young Dual Language Learners: A Critical Review.
Dual language exposure and bilingualism are relatively common experiences for children. The present review set out to synthesize the existing research on cognitive development in bilingual children and to identify the gaps and the methodological concerns present in the existing research. A search of major data bases for research conducted with typically-developing, preschool-age dual language l...
متن کامل