Diane Poulin?Dubois|Agnès Blaye|Julie Coutya|Ellen Bialystok
The effects of bilingualism on toddlers’ executive functioning
Concordia University|Concordia University|York University
bilingual children shown outperform monolingual children tasks measuring executive functioning skills advantage usually attributed bilinguals extensive practice exercising selective attention cognitive flexibility language use languages active one used examined whether advantage observed 24montholds much less experience language production battery executive functioning tasks cognitive scale bayley test administered 63 monolingual bilingual children native bilingual children performed significantly better monolingual children stroop task difference groups tasks confirming specificity bilingual effects conflict tasks reported older children results demonstrate bilingual advantages executive control emerge age previously shown