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Development of L2 language proficiency, cross-language interaction, and executive functions in child L2 learners, bilinguals, and trilinguals: Parallel development trajectories?
Greg Poarch (University of Münster) & Janet van Hell (Penn State University & Radboud University Nijmegen) g.poarch@@gmx.net Executive functions; Simon task; ANT; Bilinguals; Trilinguals; Second language learners; Cross-language activation This talk combines two studies on cross-language interaction and executive functions in child L2 learners, and bilingual and multilingual children (1,2) and builds empirically on the […]
Attention networks functioning in bilingual children: evidence from Polish-English migrant children living in the UK
Joanna Kolak (Jagiellonian University), Zofia Wodniecka (Jagiellonian University & Penn State University), Marta Bialecka-Pikul (Jagiellonian University), Ewa Haman (University of Warsaw) & Magdalena Luniewska (University of Warsaw) [email protected] Executive control; Alerting;Orienting; Bilingual children; Polish English; Attention Network Test; Flanker effect; Early bilingualism Some studies demonstrate that bilingual children outperform their monolingual peers in overall reaction […]
Efficiency of Inhibitory Control in Second Language Learners – insight from a behavioral and ERP longitudinal study
Patrycja Kalamala, Jakub Szewczyk, Magdalena Senderecka, Joanna Durlik, Zofia Wodniecka (Jagiellonian University, Institute of Psychology) [email protected] Inhibitory control; Language learning; Immersion; Bilingual advantage; Previous studies suggest that bilinguals outperform monolinguals in conflict resolution tasks, indicating a bilingual advantage in inhibitory control [1,2]. However, it is unknown whether there is a causal relationship between bilingualism and […]
Language control and nonlinguistic shifting skills in bilingual children
Megan Gross & Margarita Kaushanskaya (University of Wisconsin – Madison) [email protected] Language control; Cross-language errors; Task-shifting; Mixing costs; Switching costs; Executive function; Child bilingualism; English-Spanish; Picture naming To communicate effectively with a variety of conversation partners, bilinguals must develop language control, the ability to adjust their language choice based on the situation. This ability to […]
Context-dependent bilingual advantages: Roles of language and working memory
Grace Cannon & Hanako Yoshida (University of Houston) [email protected] Child development; Bilingualism; Task-switching; Working memory; Semantic processing; Cross-modality cueing Previous research concerning bilingual and monolingual differences is inconsistent in findings of bilingual advantages across different types of cognitive control (CC) tasks (1). Certain studies indicate that differences in CC occur solely due to working memory […]
Ambiguity resolution during online sentence comprehension in monolingual and bilingual children
Tatyana Levari (Harvard University) & Jesse Snedeker (Harvard University) [email protected] Garden-path sentences, Syntactic ambiguity, Referential ambiguity, On-line sentence comprehension; Executive Function; Visual world paradigm Monolingual and bilingual children differ in their language learning environments. Bilinguals split their exposure between two languages, resulting in less experience with each, and have a greater need to monitor language […]
Executive Function Predictors of Learners’ Language Processing: A Training Study
Lucia Pozzan, Kristina Woodard, & John C. Trueswell (University of Pennsylvania) [email protected] Sentence Processing; L2 processing; Revision; Garden Path sentences; Executive Functions; Cognitive Training; Visual world paradigm Real time language comprehension and production require focusing on and rapidly integrating multiple sources of information. Growing evidence shows that this process is supported by domain-general executive function […]
Bilingualism enhances intra-language competition resolution – Evidence from a response distribution analysis
Beinan Zhou (University of Birmingham, UK) & Andrea Krott (University of Birmingham, UK) [email protected], [email protected] Bilingual cognitive advantage; Semantic blocking; Lexical selection; Response distribution It is generally agreed that target and non-target languages in bilingual speakers are concurrently active. This parallel activation poses the need to constantly monitor language production processes. It has been argued […]
What colour is 赤? Investigating cognitive control in multi-script bilinguals
Santa Vīnerte (University of Ottawa) & Laura Sabourin (University of Ottawa) [email protected] Bilingual cognitive control; multi-script bilingualism; logograph processing; Japanese; Stroop task A growing body of literature suggests that bilingualism affects both our linguistic abilities and our general cognitive abilities. To manage two languages, bilinguals must use cognitive control skills such as attention, inhibition, and […]
The effects of bilingualism on executive control functions in auditory selective attention
Mairim Melecio-Vazquez, Yasmine Ouchikh, Sara Seweid, Sophia Barrett, Vivien Tartter, and Robert Melara (City College of New York) [email protected] Bilingualism; Young adults; Auditory Simon task, Auditory Flanker task; Quick SIN; Auditory selective attention Bilinguals show gains in performance on executive control tasks compared with monolinguals, the so-called bilingual advantage [1]. Most studies have examined the […]
