The Effects of Bilingualism on Non-Linguistic Cognition: A Historic Perspective Mattschey Jennifer
The Effects of Bilingualism on Non-Linguistic Cognition: A Historic Perspective Mattschey Jennifer This book examines a century of research on the relationship between bilingualism and intelligence…
Specifikacia The Effects of Bilingualism on Non-Linguistic Cognition: A Historic Perspective Mattschey Jennifer
The Effects of Bilingualism on Non-Linguistic Cognition: A Historic Perspective Mattschey Jennifer
This book examines a century of research on the relationship between bilingualism and intelligence and relates it to more recent research on bilingualism and executive functioning. Findings on both the bilingual 'advantage' and 'disadvantage' are shown to have suffered from In doing so, it highlights how bilingualism research has been understood and used by wider society and its impact on current debates in cognitive science as well as language policy and education.The book probes the correlation between the fact that while early intelligence research suggested a negative effect of bilingualism on intelligence, the so-called "Bilingual Problem", later research implied a positive effect, "the Bilingual Advantage." It questions whether the negative consequences that arose from the Bilingual Problem are influencing researchers' reluctance to let go of the Bilingual Advantage.