The article reports research investigating the way bilingualism affects cognitive and linguistic performance across the lifespan. In general, bilingualism appears to have both benefits and costs. Regarding costs, bilinguals typically have lower formal language proficiency than monolinguals do; for example, they have smaller vocabularies and weaker access to lexical items. The benefits, however,...

The aim of this research is to perform a bibliometric analysis published academic studies on “bilingualism” in the category educational Web Science (WoS) database. Research titles were searched using keyword all WoS data bases Knowledge page. In order reach holistic interpretation, study was done cover 51-year time period between years 1970-2021 by starting from oldest date available As result ...

The present study examined whether bilingualism facilitates acquisition of novel words in adults with different language histories. Word-learning performance was tested in monolingual English speakers, early English-Spanish bilinguals, and early English-Mandarin bilinguals. Novel words were phonologically unfamiliar to all participants, and they were acquired in association with their English t...

Literature on bilingualism and cognition is characterised by a large amount of conflicting evidence. In some studies, bilinguals perform better then monolinguals on executive tasks involving inhibition, monitoring and switching but are slower on tasks of lexical processing. Other studies don’t find any significant effects and challenge the very existence of cognitive differences between monolin...

In past literature authors raised a significant issue of role intelligence in learning different languages. Whether an intelligent individual learns two or more languages easily who has learnt perform better on tests intelligence. second language, been considered as effective factor. Acknowledging the above issue, heterogeneous sample 38 bilinguals (17 boys and 21 girls) 44 monolinguals (19 25 ...

This article presents a brief discussion of the key questions which were in focus interest research on bilingualism last five decades, particularly field bilingual language acquisition. We highlight how initially negative view has changed based scientific evidence. The overview starts with some paths already taken bilingualism, major findings concerning development and consequences these for cu...

Rejoyoso Village is a village with two ethnicities, namely Javanese and Madura. was chosen as research area by reason of the existence bilingualism in 70% community. Bilingualism question mastery regional languages first language second (Javanese Madura). dominant hamlets Wotgalih Balong. Madurese Sukosari Karangsuko Hamlets. This focuses on domains which influence communication vitality Rejoyo...

Literature on bilingualism and cognition is characterised by a large amount of conflicting evidence. In some studies, bilinguals perform better then monolinguals on executive tasks involving inhibition, monitoring and switching but are slower on tasks of lexical processing. Other studies don’t find any significant effects and challenge the very existence of cognitive differences between monolin...

Latino dual language children typically enter school with a wide range of proficiencies in Spanish and English, many with low proficiency in both languages, yet do make gains in one or both languages during their first school years. Dual language development is associated with how language is used at home and school, as well as the type of instructional program children receive at school. The p...

A number of studies have shown that from an early age, bilinguals outperform their monolingual peers on executive control tasks. We previously found that bilingual children and adults also display greater attention to unexpected language switches within speech. Here, we investigated the effect of a bilingual upbringing on speech perception in one language. We recorded monolingual and bilingual ...