The dual purposes of this review are, first, to synthesize the extant research on biliteracy,
focusing particularly on children and youths and, second, to clarify key terms and …

Even though more than half the world's population is bilingual, the study of bilinguals has
lagged behind that of monolinguals. With this book, which draws on twenty-five years of the …

This chapter reviews recent developments on the comprehension of words and sentences in
two languages, which show that the lexicon and grammar have more in common than …

This book sets a high standard for rigor and scientific approach to the study of bilingualism
and provides new insights regarding the critical issues of theory and practice, including the …

Bilingualism provides a unique opportunity for exploring hypotheses about how the human
brain encodes language. For example, the “input switch” theory states that bilinguals can …

Current approaches to second language acquisition (SLA) can be divided broadly into two
groups: nativist models and empiricist models. Nativist models attribute language …

An eye tracking experiment examined how exposure to a second language (L2) influences
sentence parsing in the first language. Forty-four monolingual Spanish speakers, 24 …

In 2005, Science magazine designated the problem of accounting for difficulties in L2
(second language) learning as one of the 125 outstanding challenges facing scientific …

This study investigates the way adult second language (L2) learners of English resolve
relative clause attachment ambiguities in sentences such as The dean liked the secretary of …

This study investigates whether proficient second language (L2) speakers of Spanish and
English use the same parsing strategies as monolinguals when reading temporarily …