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Allen, Laura K.; Perret, Cecile; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2016
The relationship between working memory capacity and writing ability was examined via a linguistic analysis of student essays. Undergraduate students (n = 108) wrote timed, prompt-based essays and completed a battery of cognitive assessments. The surface- and discourse-level linguistic features of students' essays were then analyzed using natural…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Writing (Composition), Short Term Memory, Writing Ability
Kapa, Leah Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Prior research has established an executive function advantage among bilinguals as compared to monolingual peers. These non-linguistic cognitive advantages are largely assumed to result from the experience of managing two linguistic systems. However, the possibility remains that the relationship between bilingualism and executive function is…
Descriptors: Artificial Languages, Executive Function, Adults, Bilingualism