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Goodman, Gail S.; And Others – 1980
Automatic processing of word meaning by bilingual children was studied in a picture/word interference task. Thirty elementary and junior high students, fluent in French and English, named pictures as rapidly as possible while attempting to ignore distractor words printed inside the pictures' borders. The printed distractors interfered with naming…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education