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Xiaoluan Liu; Jixian Nie – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2024
The present study compared bilingualism with bidialectalism in their respective impact on executive control, using a short-term language switching training paradigm for participants who were both bidialectals (Shanghainese-Mandarin Chinese) and bilinguals (Chinese-English). Twenty participants were assigned to a control group where no language…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Bilingualism, Dialects, Code Switching (Language)
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Winch, Christopher; Gingell, John – Language and Education, 1994
Reports on the writing performance of Saint Lucian schoolchildren with particular reference to possible dialect interference in written speech. The study focuses on characteristic errors in the writing as well as the causes and significance of these errors and explores the available remedies. (21 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Creoles, Dialects, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students