The importance of bilingual experience in assessing bilingual advantages in executive functions

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: YANG, Hwajin, HARTANTO, Andree, YANG, Sujin
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• الموضوعات: Bilingualism; Executive functions; Bilingual experience' Bilinguals' interactional context; Age of active bilingualism; Cognitive Psychology; Multicultural Psychology
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1900; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3157/viewcontent/the_importance_of_bilingual_experience.pdf
• المؤسسة: Singapore Management University

Paap, Johnson, and Sawi (2015) contend that bilingual advantages in executive functions (EF) do not exist, and that there is no compelling evidence that a certain bilingual experience hones a specific component of EF (p. 272). We believe that this conclusion is premature, because Paap et al.'s...