Monolingual and bilingual children perform comparably on single-modality classification tasks in accuracy and speed¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · associational r2 · q3
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q3 i? For the single task, there were no significant effects of language group, modality, or their interaction on accuracy. → Bialystok Ellen 2011 q3 i? Reaction times showed no effect of language group in either single or dual conditions. → Bialystok Ellen 2011 (2)

Evidence¶

Bialystok Ellen 2011¶

Bialystok Ellen. (2011). Coordination of Executive Functions in Monolingual and Bilingual Children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3139691/

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Separate 2-way ANOVA on single-task accuracy in the same experiment with 63 children. "For the single task, there were no effects for any factor: language group, F (1, 61) = 1.86, n.s., modality, F (1, 61) = 1.44, n.s., or their interaction, F (1, 61) = 3.39, n.s."

"For the single task, there were no effects for any factor: language group, F (1, 61) = 1.86, n.s., modality, F (1, 61) = 1.44, n.s., or their interaction, F (1, 61) = 3.39, n.s."

Bialystok Ellen 2011 (2)¶

Bialystok Ellen. (2011). Coordination of Executive Functions in Monolingual and Bilingual Children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3139691/

q3 · i? · associational · r2

3-way ANOVA on reaction times for language group, condition, and modality. "There was no effect for language group, F < 1", so the bilingual accuracy advantage came with no speed cost.

"There was no effect for language group, F < 1."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Bilingual children maintain higher accuracy than monolingual children in a dual-modality classification task, with the advantage limited to the visual task — related
• Match trials are more accurate and faster than mismatch trials in the dual-modality task, with no language group difference — related
• The dual-task condition is more difficult than the single-task condition, with a condition-by-modality interaction in reaction time — related
• Bilingual children show no reaction time cost for their dual-task accuracy advantage — related
• More bilingual than monolingual children pass the 60% accuracy criterion on the visual dual-task, but not on the auditory dual-task — related