Chamorro, Gloria, Janke, Vikki (2023) Educational bilingualism: reflections on a longitudinal study of children’s cognitive and linguistic development. Ampersand, . (In press) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:98667)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amper.2023.100115 |
Abstract
Our longitudinal study examined cognitive, social, and vocabulary skills of bilingually-educated, yet monolingually-raised, Spanish children, exploring (a) whether bilingual education procured a bilingual advantage, (b) whether greater L2 exposure was key to producing it, and (c) how development proceeded over time. We compared three groups of children in Years 1 and 2 of primary education in Spain: one attending monolingual education (MON), and two attending English-Spanish bilingual education, where one group received higher exposure (HiEx) and the other lower exposure (LoEx) to English. Children were tested in their schools on cognitive, social, and linguistic skills. In this report, we focus on the cognitive and vocabulary aspects. Across both years, the groups differed in their English vocabulary: HiEx outperformed LoEx and MON (p<0.001), and LoEx outperformed MON (p=0.02) but there were no differences in the children’s L1 vocabulary scores. After one year of schooling, bilingually-educated children scored higher than MON on certain cognitive skills (interference suppression, p<0.001; response inhibition, p=0.02) but these differences did not materialise after a second year. The present paper combines these results from our two previously published studies with other current literature on educational bilingualism into a discussion on how future work on this population could progress.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled keywords: | Bilingualism; Spanish; English; education; child |
Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Culture and Languages |
Funders: | [135] University of Kent |
Depositing User: | Vikki Janke |
Date Deposited: | 04 Dec 2022 09:20 UTC |
Last Modified: | 21 Mar 2023 13:01 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/98667 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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