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Giovannoli, Jasmine; Martella, Diana; Casagrande, Maria – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Bilingualism is widespread and being bilingual is more common than being monolingual. The lifelong practice bilinguals receive from managing two languages seems to lead to a cognitive benefit. Conversely, bilingualism seems to affect language ability negatively due to less use of each known language. Aims: This systematic review aims…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Verbal Ability, Bilingualism, Task Analysis
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K. K. Nair, Vishnu; Clark, Grace T.; Siyambalapitiya, Samantha; Reuterskiöld, Christina – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Background: Although there is a growing body of literature on cognitive and language processing in bilingual children with developmental language disorder (DLD), there is a major gap in the evidence for language intervention. Critically, speech-language therapists are often required to make clinical decisions for language intervention on specific…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Language Impairments, Intervention, Language Processing
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Van der Linden, Lize; Verreyt, Nele; De Letter, Miet; Hemelsoet, Dimitri; Mariën, Peter; Santens, Patrick; Stevens, Michaël; Szmalec, Arnaud; Duyck, Wouter – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2018
Background: Until today, there is no satisfying explanation for why one language may recover worse than another in differential bilingual aphasia. One potential explanation that has been largely unexplored is that differential aphasia is the consequence of a loss of language control rather than a loss of linguistic representations. Language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Aphasia, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making