Bilingual children show faster trail-making B performance, while Indian bilinguals are faster on Trails A and monolinguals score higher on receptive vocabulary¶

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q3 i? Monolinguals scored higher on the PPVT; Indian bilinguals were faster on Trails A; both bilingual groups were faster than monolinguals on Trails B; memory measures showed no group differences. → Bialystok Ellen 2009

Evidence¶

Bialystok Ellen 2009¶

Bialystok Ellen, Viswanathan Mythili. (2009). Components of Executive Control with Advantages for Bilingual Children in Two Cultures. Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2009.06.014

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Background battery (PPVT, animal span, sequencing span, Corsi blocks, trail-making) in ninety 8-year-olds. For trails, "in Trails A, the Indian bilinguals were faster than the other groups, F (2, 87) = 13.25, p < .0001, but in Trails B, the two bilingual groups were faster than the monolinguals, F (2, 87) = 15.79, p < .0001."

"monolingual children obtained higher scores on the PPVT, F (2, 84) = 41.37, p < .0001, with no difference between the two bilingual groups."

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