Nicola Hermanto|Sylvain Moreno|Ellen Bialystok
Linguistic and metalinguistic outcomes of intense immersion education: how bilingual?
McGill University|York University|Baycrest Hospital|University of Toronto|York University
abstract anglophone children grades 2 5 attended intensive french immersion program examined linguistic metalinguistic ability english french measures linguistic proficiency vocabulary grammatical knowledge consistently higher english remained even 5 years immersion education french measures metalinguistic ability letter fluency ignoring semantic anomalies sentence judgments french improved significantly two grades studied closed gap letter fluency caught sentence judgments similar performance english dissociation developmental trajectories linguistic metalinguistic development exactly pattern expected fully bilingual children endorsing immersion education route bilingualism