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50 Years of ERIC
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Cognitive Effects of Bilingualism: Digging Deeper for the Contributions of Language Dominance, Linguistic Knowledge, Socio-Economic Status and Cognitive Abilities
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Mueller Gathercole, Virginia C.; Thomas, Enlli Mon; Jones, Leah; Guasch, Nestor Vinas; Young, Nia; Hughes, Emma K. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2010
This study explores the extent to which a bilingual advantage can be observed for executive function tasks in children of varying levels of language dominance, and examines the contributions of general cognitive knowledge, linguistic abilities, language use and socio-economic level to performance. Welsh-English bilingual and English monolingual…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Socioeconomic Status, Linguistics, Monolingualism
Designing a Normed Receptive Vocabulary Test for Bilingual Populations: A Model from Welsh
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Mueller Gathercole, Virginia C.; Thomas, Enlli Mon; Hughes, Emma – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2008
The purpose of this paper is to propose an applied model for the assessment of bilingual children's language abilities with standardised tests. We discuss the purposes of such tests, especially in relation to vocabulary knowledge, and potential applications of test results for each of those purposes. The specific case to be examined here is that…
Descriptors: Test Results, Language Tests, Monolingualism, Vocabulary Development
Miami and North Wales, So Far and Yet So Near: A Constructivist Account of Morphosyntactic Development in Bilingual Children
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Mueller Gathercole, Virginia C. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2007
This paper proposes a constructivist account of the development of morphosyntax in bilinguals, based on an examination of two populations--English-Spanish bilinguals in Miami and English-Welsh bilinguals in North Wales. Despite sociocultural and sociolinguistic differences across these groups, the development of bilinguals in the two groups…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Monolingualism, Language Acquisition, Constructivism (Learning)