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Publication details [#66122]

McVeigh, Claire, Judith Wylie and Gerry Mulhern. 2019. Verbal and visuospatial working memory in immersion-educated bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 22 (4) : 505–517.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | education | monolingualism | verbal action | working memory

Language as a subject

English | Irish

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This inquiry explored short-term memory (STM) and working memory (WM) in immersion-educated children and a matched group of English monolingual controls. Overall, findings state that bilingualism (here: L1 (English) and L2 (Irish)) does not offer benfits for WM.