The bilingual advantage in perspective taking appears at the 180° and 270° observer positions but not at the 90° position¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2013 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q3 i? Bilinguals scored significantly higher than monolinguals at the 180° and 270° positions but not at the 90° position. → Greenberg Anastasia 2013

Evidence¶

Greenberg Anastasia 2013¶

Greenberg Anastasia, Bellana Buddhika, Bialystok Ellen. (2013). Perspective-Taking Ability in Bilingual Children: Extending Advantages in Executive Control to Spatial Reasoning. Cognitive Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2012.10.002

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Follow-up one-way ANOVAs by language group at each observer position in the same 82-child experiment found "bilinguals obtained significantly higher scores than monolinguals for the 180° position" and the 270° position, but not the 90° position.

"bilinguals obtained significantly higher scores than monolinguals for the 180° position, F(1,80) = 5.77, p < .01, and 270° position, F(1,180) = 16.22, p < .0001, but not for the 90° position, F(1,80) = 1.44, n.s."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

Reading and Language — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
Social Awareness and Relationship Skills — outcome: instruction changes it

Bilingual 8-year-olds are more accurate than monolingual 8-year-olds on a computerized spatial perspective-taking task — a broader claim this one bears on
Monolingual and bilingual children show no differences in the types of errors committed on the perspective-taking task — related
Language group predicts perspective-taking accuracy after controlling for receptive vocabulary and fluid intelligence — a broader claim this one bears on

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`title`	`The bilingual advantage in perspective taking appears at the 180° and 270° observer positions but not at the 90° position`
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