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Download full textCummins, James – 1977
Studies conducted with middle-class balanced bilinguals in "additive" environments, where both languages are prestigious, have generally reported that bilinguals showed a higher level of cognitive performance than monolinguals. In these studies, bilinguals showed higher levels of general intellectual skills, higher levels of divergent thinking, a…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Child Language, Cognitive Ability
