Publications

Publication details [#59027]

Kalashnikova, Marina and Karen Mattock. 2014. Maturation of executive functioning skills in early sequential bilingualism. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 17 (1) : 111–123.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

attention | bilingual acquisition | cognitive capacity | metalinguistic awareness | metarepresentation

Language as a subject

English | Welsh

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

Sequential bilinguals, in casu English-speaking children learning L2 Welsh, surpass monolinguals in attentional control tasks, but not in metalinguistic awareness and metarepresentation tasks. Attentional control thus appears the first cognitive element favored by early sequential bilingualism.