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Peer reviewedBialystok, Ellen – Developmental Psychology, 1988
Presents a framework for relating degree of bilingualism to aspects of linguistic awareness. Found the more fully bilingual a child was, the better his or her performance on metalinguistic tasks requiring high levels of analysis of knowledge. (SKC)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Development, Grade 1, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedBialystok, Ellen – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1979
Reports on a study which sought to identify and examine the effects of certain learning strategies--practice, monitoring, and inferencing--on second language learning. (AM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Language Proficiency, Language Research, Learning Processes
The Relationship Between Bilingualism and the Development of Cognitive Processes in Problem Solving.
Peer reviewedBialystok, Ellen; Majumder, Shilpi – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1998
A study examined the effects of differing degrees of bilingualism (English monolingual, English-French balanced bilingual, Bengali-English partial bilingual) on nonverbal problem-solving abilities of 71 grade-three children. The groups were compared on control of attention and analysis of knowledge. Results indicate the balanced bilinguals…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Attention Control, Bengali, Bilingualism
