title: Emerging bilingualism: dissociating advantages for metalinguistic awareness and executive control.
abstract: The present studies revealed different factors associated with the reported advantages found in fully bilingual children for metalinguistic awareness and executive control. Participants were 100 children in Study 1 and 80 children in Study 2 in the process of becoming bilingual by attending immersion programs. In both studies, level of proficiency in the language of testing was related to performance on metalinguistic tasks and length of time in the immersion program was related to performance on executive control tasks. This dissociation is consistent with models of lifespan development that distinguish between representational structure and executive control.
authors: Department of Psychology, York University, 4700 Keele St., M3J 1P3, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ellenb@yorku.ca
authors: Ellen
authors: E
authors: Bialystok
authors: Raluca
authors: R
authors: Barac
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D056344:Executive Function / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007804:Language Development; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D019303:Multilingualism; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D012044:Regression Analysis; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013663:Teaching