Directional preferences of bilingual children.
Effects of simultaneous acquisition of differential reading and writing habits (in English and Hebrew) on directional preferences were investigated for 72 bilingual children in Grades 1 to 6. The children reproduced series of single and multiple stimuli; horizontal directions of their responses were recorded. Increased age was accompanied by growing left-right directional preferences in response to all stimuli but Hebrew letters, for which the reversed right-left preferences appeared. These data corroborate previous findings showing effects of reading and writing habits on directional preferences.
D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006184:Habits; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D011932:Reading; D014796:Visual Perception; D014956:Writing