Publications

Publication details [#53751]

Mueller Gathercole, Virginia C., Enlli Mon Thomas and Leah Jones. 2010. Cognitive effects of bilingualism: digging deeper for the contributions of language dominance, linguistic knowledge, socio-economic status and cognitive abilities. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 13 (5) : 617–664.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | cognition | language dominance | language proficiency | language use

Language as a subject

English | Welsh

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper examines to what extent a bilingual advantage can be ascertained for executive function tasks in (in casu Welsh-English) bilingual children of varying dregrees of language dominance, and explores how general cognitive knowledge, linguistic skills, language use and socio-economic status add to performance.