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Poulin-Dubois, Diane; Blaye, Agnes; Coutya, Julie; Bialystok, Ellen – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
Bilingual children have been shown to outperform monolingual children on tasks measuring executive functioning skills. This advantage is usually attributed to bilinguals' extensive practice in exercising selective attention and cognitive flexibility during language use because both languages are active when one of them is being used. We examined…
Descriptors: Attention, Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Toddlers