Building on earlier evidence showing a beneficial effect of bilingualism on children's
cognitive development, we review recent studies using both behavioral and neuroimaging …

Bilingual Minds - Ellen Bialystok, Fergus IM Craik, David W. Green, Tamar H. Gollan, 2009
Skip to main content Intended for healthcare professionals Skip to main content Sage …

Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many
of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second …

Two studies are reported comparing the performance of monolingual and bilingual children
on tasks requiring different levels of working memory. In the first study, 56 5-year-olds …

Reading in a Second Language: Moving from Theory to Practice Bill Grabe Table of
Contents Preface Section I: Foundations of Reading Comprehension 1. The Nature of …

The fifth edition of this bestselling book provides a comprehensive introduction to
bilingualism and bilingual education. In a compact and clear style, its 19 chapters cover all …

This paper aims to foster discussion of the means by which bilinguals control their two
language systems. It proposes an inhibitory control (IC) model that embodies the principle …

Strategies in Learning and Using a Second Language examines what it takes to achieve
long-term success in languages beyond the first language. Distinguishing language …

Purpose To develop a reliable and valid questionnaire of bilingual language status with
predictable relationships between self-reported and behavioral measures. Method In Study …

A cogent, freshly written synthesis of new and classic work on crosslinguistic influence, or
language transfer, this book is an authoritative account of transfer in second-language …