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Werner Greve; Martin Koch; Verena Rasche; Kristin Kersten – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2024
The cognitive advantage (CA) hypothesis claims that multilingualism promotes the development of several basic cognitive capacities. A large number of empirical findings support this hypothesis, but recently there have also been numerous contradictory findings and methodological objections. The present paper extends the investigation of possible…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Cognitive Ability, Monolingualism, Multilingualism
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Goncz, Lajos; Kodzopeljic, Jasmina – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1991
The hypothesis that access to two languages in the preschool period might promote metalinguistic development was subjected to empirical verification. The method of parallel groups with paired equalization procedure was used to test the hypothesis. (25 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Language Research, Linguistic Theory