Bilingualism Enriches the Poor
| Autor: | Ellen Bialystok, Anabela Cruz-Santos, Romain Martin, Carlos J. Tourinho, Pascale Engel de Abreu |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Fonds National de la Recherche - FnR [sponsor], EMACS [research center] |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Theoretical & cognitive psychology [H12] [Social & behavioral sciences psychology] Emigrants and Immigrants Multilingualism Article 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology Executive Function Cognition Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Child Control (linguistics) Poverty Socioeconomic status Neuroscience of multilingualism Psychologie cognitive & théorique [H12] [Sciences sociales & comportementales psychologie] General Psychology Working memory 05 social sciences 1. No poverty bilingualism Executive functions COST BiSLI Female Psychology cognitive processes immigration 050104 developmental & child psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Psychological Science. 23:1364-1371 |
| ISSN: | 1467-9280 0956-7976 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0956797612443836 |
| Popis: | This study explores whether the cognitive advantage associated with bilingualism in executive functioning extends to young immigrant children challenged by poverty and, if it does, which specific processes are most affected. In the study reported here, 40 Portuguese-Luxembourgish bilingual children from low-income immigrant families in Luxembourg and 40 matched monolingual children from Portugal completed visuospatial tests of working memory, abstract reasoning, selective attention, and interference suppression. Two broad cognitive factors of executive functioning—representation (abstract reasoning and working memory) and control (selective attention and interference suppression)—emerged from principal component analysis. Whereas there were no group differences in representation, the bilinguals performed significantly better than did the monolinguals in control. These results demonstrate, first, that the bilingual advantage is neither confounded with nor limited by socioeconomic and cultural factors and, second, that separable aspects of executive functioning are differentially affected by bilingualism. The bilingual advantage lies in control but not in visuospatial representational processes. |
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