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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
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge

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.