Code-switching does not predict Executive Function performance in proficient bilingual children: Bilingualism does
| Autor: | Carissa Kang, Barbara Lust |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language education.field_of_study media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Population Semantic fluency Code-switching 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Education Task (project management) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Language proficiency education Psychology Function (engineering) Neuroscience of multilingualism Stroop effect Cognitive psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 22:366-382 |
| ISSN: | 1469-1841 1366-7289 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s1366728918000299 |
| Popis: | Previous studies of bilingual adults have suggested that bilinguals’ experience with code-switching (CS) contributes to superior executive function (EF) abilities. We tested a highly bilingual developing population in Singapore, a multilingual country where CS occurs pervasively. We obtained CS and EF measures from 43 English–Chinese 8-year-old children (27 females, M = 100 months). We measured spontaneous CS with a novel task and EF in terms of task-switching (Semantic Fluency) and inhibitory control (Stroop task in both languages). Contrary to previous work, CS performance did not significantly predict EF performance in either case. Rather, bilingual language proficiency, i.e., degree of bilingualism (as measured by direct proficiency tests and parents’ estimates of daily language use and exposure of both languages) influenced EF performance. Accordingly, the relationship between CS and EF may be more indirect and non-necessary than previously assumed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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