Bilingualism and Cognition: Some Recent Findings
Bilingualism and Cognition: Some Recent Findings
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双语和认知:最近的一些发现
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1979
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Edward A. De Avila
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S. Duncan;Edward A. De Avila
The purposes of this cross-sectional study were (1) to assess and describe the English/Spanish relative linguistic proficiency (RLP) of four Hispanic background populations in grades one and three, and (2) on the basis of this description, to assess the performance of children at increasingly higher levels of RLP on three measures of cognitive functioning. Following a rationale emphasizing cognitive-development and learning theory approaches, the primary prediction was that there would be significant differences in performance by children at increasingly higher levels of RLP. In accordance with an interpretation of bilingualism based on the metaset (De Avila & Duncan, 1979) it was predicted that the bilingual children’s performance on all measures would be superior to that of the monolingual children. The subjects were 204 school children in grades one and three, selected from urban and rural Mexican-American, and urban Puerto Rican-American and Cuban-American communities. The Language Assessment Scales (...