Bilingual people are often claimed to have an advantage over monolingual people in
cognitive processing owing to their ability to learn and use two languages. This advantage is …

This volume reports the findings of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority
Children and Youth. The formal charge to the panel—a distinguished group of expert …

There is considerable debate about whether bilingual children have an advantage in
executive functioning relative to monolingual children. In the current meta-analysis, we …

Bilinguals often outperform monolinguals on executive function tasks, including tasks that
tap cognitive flexibility, conflict monitoring, and task-switching abilities. Some have …

We report a systematic meta-analytic review of studies comparing reading comprehension
and its underlying components (language comprehension, decoding, and phonological …

This study investigated cross-language and writing system relationship in biliteracy
acquisition of children learning to read two different writing systems—Chinese and English …

This study is an investigation of the contribution of morphological awareness in Chinese-
English biliteracy acquisition. Comparable tasks in Chinese and English were administered …

This article reports on the results of a longitudinal investigation of the reading development
of a sample of 824 children (406 girls, 418 boys). The sample included 689 native English …

The Handbook of Child Language Disorders provides an in-depth, comprehensive, and
state-of-the-art review of current research concerning the nature, assessment, and …

Due to their experience of managing two languages, it has been suggested that bilinguals
could receive more practice in the domain of working memory (WM) leading to a WM …