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The Relationship Between Cognitive And Linguistic Abilities In Bilingual Children, Ines Elena Martin
The Relationship Between Cognitive And Linguistic Abilities In Bilingual Children, Ines Elena Martin
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We examined the relationship between cognitive and linguistic abilities in bilingual children (English – Spanish). In particular, we measured the effect of attentional control (the ability to maintain an operative goal, and goal-relevant information, in the face of distraction) and educational experience (amount of time reading) on reading ability (the ability to recognize words and discard misspelled non-words). The sample included 82 developing bilingual children from an immersion school in the United States. Participants were presented with two tasks: the Flanker task as the measure of attentional control (resistance to distractor interference) and the Lexical decision task as the measure …