| Reference : Bilingualism Enriches the Poor: Enhanced Cognitive Control in Low-Income Minority Ch... |
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| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/17607 | |||
| Bilingualism Enriches the Poor: Enhanced Cognitive Control in Low-Income Minority Children | |
| English | |
Engel de Abreu, Pascale  [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Education, Culture, Cognition and Society (ECCS) >] | |
| Cruz-Santos, Anabela [] | |
| Tourinho, Carlos [] | |
| Martin, Romain [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education (FLSHASE) > Education, Culture, Cognition and Society (ECCS) >] | |
| Bialystok, Ellen [] | |
| 16-Jul-2014 | |
| Yes | |
| No | |
| International | |
| 13th International Congress for the Study of Child Language | |
| 14.07.2014-18.07.2014 | |
| IASCL | |
| Amsterdam | |
| Netherlands | |
| [en] Mulilingualism ; cognitive control ; executive functions ; working memory ; poverty ; language minority children ; cognitive advantage | |
| [en] Research question: Living in poverty is often accompanied by conditions that can negatively
influence cognitive development (Noble, Norman, & Farah, 2005). Is it possible that being bilingual might counteract these effects? This study explores whether the cognitive advantage associated with bilingualism in executive functioning (Bialystok, Craik, Green, & Gollan, 2009) extends to young immigrant children challenged by poverty and, if it does, which specific processes are most affected. Methods: 80 second graders from low-income families participated in the study. Half of the children were first or second generation immigrants to Luxembourg, originally from Northern Portugal, who spoke both Luxembourgish and Portuguese on a daily basis. The other matched half of children lived in Northern Portugal and spoke only Portuguese. Children completed measures of vocabulary and visuo-spatial tests of working memory, abstract reasoning, selective attention, and interference suppression. Results: Two broad cognitive factors of executive functioning—representation (abstract reasoning and working memory) and control (selective attention and interference | |
| University of Luxembourg: FLSHASE | |
| Fonds National de la Recherche - FnR | |
| F3R-EMA-PFN-09LM07 > Cognitive and Linguistic Development of Portuguese Children > 01/10/2010 - 31/07/2013 > MARTIN Romain | |
| Researchers | |
| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/17607 | |
| Part of symposium "Cognitive Advantages in Bilingual Children" |
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