THE EFFECT OF BILINGUAL EXPERIENCE AND HOME LANGUAGE ENVIRONMENT ON COGNITIVE CONTROL OF BILINGUAL CHILDREN

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2024-1-2

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Gong, Xiaowei

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There has been growing interest in how different dimensions of bilingual experience correlate with cognitive abilities within the bilingual group. This interest targeted data from young bilingual children who lack sufficient language production. The current study includes a variety of bilingual experience-related factors such as language proficiency, language use, and code-switching frequency, as well as targeting both young bilingual children and their parents. Twenty-four multilingual families with 30- to 48-month-old bilingual children provided audio recordings of their daily interaction, filled out the bilingual experience-related questionnaire, and participated in online cognitive tasks. Results showed that children's age, rather than any of the children's or parents' bilingual-experience-related variables, predicted children's cognitive control abilities. We also reported the intercorrelations among all bilingual-experience-related variables for both children and parents. This study is one of the few studies that looked at the bilingual effects between bilingualism and cognition by including parental factors as well as three bilingual-experience-related dimensions, particularly the code-switching frequency. The implications of applying the bilingual experience-based approach and including environmental factors while studying young bilingual age groups with limited language production were also discussed in the article.

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bilingual experience-related variables, cognitive control abilities, environmental factors, code-switching frequency, young bilingual speakers

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/108202

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis