More bilingual than monolingual children pass the 60% accuracy criterion on the visual dual-task, but not on the auditory dual-task¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · associational r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2011 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? For visual responses, more bilinguals passed than monolinguals (χ2 (1) = 10.68, p < .001). → Bialystok Ellen 2011 q3 i? For auditory responses, the pass/fail distributions were not significantly different between groups. → 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

Pass/fail analysis using a 60% correct criterion (scores below were not different from chance) on dual-modality data. "For the visual responses (Table 3a), more bilinguals passed than monolinguals, χ2 (1) = 10.68, p < .001"; the auditory distributions did not differ.

"For the visual responses (Table 3a), more bilinguals passed than monolinguals, χ2 (1) = 10.68, p < .001, but for the auditory responses (Table 3b), the distributions were not significantly different, χ2 (1) = 2.23, p = .13"

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

Same pass/fail analysis applied to auditory responses in the dual-modality condition. "but for the auditory responses (Table 3b), the distributions were not significantly different, χ2 (1) = 2.23, p = .13".

"but for the auditory responses (Table 3b), the distributions were not significantly different, χ2 (1) = 2.23, p = .13"

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 — a broader claim this one bears on
• Monolingual and bilingual children perform comparably on single-modality classification tasks in accuracy and speed — 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