Is There an Association between Executive Function and Receptive Vocabulary in Bilingual Children? A Longitudinal Examination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15716637 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vanessa Díaz (0000-0002-1842-4018, Virginia Tech, corresponding author), Maria Borjas (University of Houston), M Jeffrey Farrar (University of Florida) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 44-44 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Children (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2227-9067 • E-ISSN: 2227-9067 |
| Publisher | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3390/children8010044 |
| PMID | 33450846 |
| OpenAlex | W3118405510 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 28 |
Dual language management has been proposed as the reason for bilingual children's sometimes enhanced executive functioning (EF). We sought to identify the directionality of the relation between language proficiency and EF, using measures of receptive vocabulary, inhibitory control, and cognitive flexibility. Data were collected twice, a year apart, on 35- to 66.8-month-old bilingual ( n = 41, M = 49.19 months) and monolingual preschool children ( n = 37, M = 47.82 months). The longitudinal results revealed that while the monolingual children's vocabulary at Time 1 predicted EF at Time 2, EF at Time 1 did not predict vocabulary at Time 2. In contrast, for bilingual children the relation was not present at all. The results were similar after the one-time analyses. The absence of relations between EF and language in bilinguals, while present in monolinguals, challenges the current conceptualization of the EF advantage in bilinguals, and emphasizes the need for more research on the development of bilingual children
Association (psychology · Cognition · Cognitive flexibility · Cognitive psychology · Conceptualization · Contrast (vision · Developmental psychology · Flexibility (engineering · Linguistics · Longitudinal data · Longitudinal study · Neuroscience of multilingualism · Vocabulary · Vocabulary development · Computer Science · Language Development and Disorders · Mathematics · Medicine · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development · Artificial Intelligence
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Bilingualism
The development of two types of inhibitory control in monolingual and bilingual children
Bilingual advantages in executive functioning either do not exist or are restricted to very specific and undetermined circumstances
Cognitive gains in 7-month-old bilingual infants
Cognitive effects of bilingualism
What you hear and what you say
Do bilingual and monolingual preschoolers acquire false belief understanding similarly? The role of executive functioning and language
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Development of Executive Control and Language Processing
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |