Absence of a bilingual cognitive flexibility advantage: A replication study in preschoolers.

Some studies have found a bilingual advantage in children's executive function and some failed to find a bilingual advantage. For example, the results of a previous study by Bialystok & Martin (2004) indicated that Chinese-English bilingual preschool children outperformed English monolingua...

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Autores principales:	Anahita Shokrkon, Elena Nicoladis
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:ea189a67c6e249989a51141ac9dbb8512021-12-02T20:15:12ZAbsence of a bilingual cognitive flexibility advantage: A replication study in preschoolers.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0255157https://doaj.org/article/ea189a67c6e249989a51141ac9dbb8512021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0255157https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Some studies have found a bilingual advantage in children's executive function and some failed to find a bilingual advantage. For example, the results of a previous study by Bialystok & Martin (2004) indicated that Chinese-English bilingual preschool children outperformed English monolingual children in solving the dimensional change card sort (DCCS). The goal of our study was to replicate this study using the same dimensional change card sort task. We also tested our participants on vocabulary and digit span. Our participants were 40 English monolingual and 40 Mandarin-English bilingual children and were within the same age range as the children in Bialystok & Martin's (2004) study. Our results showed no difference between bilinguals and monolinguals. Both groups of children in the present study performed better than those in Bialystok and Martin (2004), but the bigger difference was between the two groups of monolinguals. These results suggest that it could be important to attend to monolingual children's performance, in addition to bilinguals', when testing for a bilingual advantage. Our replication study is important because it helps with clarifying the validity of studies finding a bilingual advantage and to help future researchers know whether to build on their findings or not.Anahita ShokrkonElena NicoladisPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 8, p e0255157 (2021)
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description	Some studies have found a bilingual advantage in children's executive function and some failed to find a bilingual advantage. For example, the results of a previous study by Bialystok & Martin (2004) indicated that Chinese-English bilingual preschool children outperformed English monolingual children in solving the dimensional change card sort (DCCS). The goal of our study was to replicate this study using the same dimensional change card sort task. We also tested our participants on vocabulary and digit span. Our participants were 40 English monolingual and 40 Mandarin-English bilingual children and were within the same age range as the children in Bialystok & Martin's (2004) study. Our results showed no difference between bilinguals and monolinguals. Both groups of children in the present study performed better than those in Bialystok and Martin (2004), but the bigger difference was between the two groups of monolinguals. These results suggest that it could be important to attend to monolingual children's performance, in addition to bilinguals', when testing for a bilingual advantage. Our replication study is important because it helps with clarifying the validity of studies finding a bilingual advantage and to help future researchers know whether to build on their findings or not.
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title	Absence of a bilingual cognitive flexibility advantage: A replication study in preschoolers.
title_short	Absence of a bilingual cognitive flexibility advantage: A replication study in preschoolers.
title_full	Absence of a bilingual cognitive flexibility advantage: A replication study in preschoolers.
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Absence of a bilingual cognitive flexibility advantage: A replication study in preschoolers.

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