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Bilingualism and Cognitive Development: Three Perspectives and Methodological Implications.
- Publication Year :
- 1986
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Abstract
- The relationship between bilingualism and cognitive development is explored as an exemplary area in which the disciplinary concerns of cognitive psychology, social psychology, and sociology occur together. A historical review of research shows that many of the apparently contradictory findings about the effects of bilingualism on mental development have stemmed from a failure to distinguish between levels of bilingualism as defined by the three different research orientations. The literature within each of the disciplines is discussed and the implications for a more rigorous definition of bilingualism are outlined, based on research undertaken in a bilingual education program in New Haven, Connecticut. Sixty-nine references are listed. (Author/MSE)
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- ERIC
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- ED278274
- Document Type :
- Information Analyses<br />Reports - Evaluative<br />Opinion Papers