Bilingual children in Canada and India perform equivalently, supporting bilingualism rather than culture or immigration as the advantage's source¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r1 · q3
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Subclaims¶

q3 i? In all faces-task comparisons with group differences, the Canadian and Indian bilinguals were equivalent to each other and faster than Canadian monolinguals. → 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 · r1

Between-groups comparison of ninety 8-year-olds: Canadian monolinguals, Canadian bilinguals speaking diverse non-English languages, and Indian bilinguals speaking Tamil or Telugu. The authors argue social class, immigration, and cultural explanations fail to fit this pattern.

"Yet, in all comparisons in which there were group differences, the bilinguals in Canada and India performed similarly to each other and differently from the monolinguals in Canada."

Discussion¶

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