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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2022

Does Early Exposure to Chinese-English Biliteracy Enhance Cognitive Skills?

Jing Yin, Connie Qun Guan, Elaine R Smolen, Esther Geva, Wanjin Meng

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Jing YinSchool of Languages and Communication Studies, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China.
Connie Qun GuanBeijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China.
Elaine R SmolenTeachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States.
Esther GevaThe Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Wanjin MengDepartment of Moral, Psychology and Special Education, China National Institute of Education Sciences, Beijing, China.

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Abstract

Clarifying the effects of biliteracy on cognitive development is important to understanding the role of cognitive development in L2 learning. A substantial body of research has shed light on the cognitive factors contributing to biliteracy development. Yet, not much is known about the effect of the degree of exposure to biliteracy on cognitive functions. To fill this research void, we measured three categories of biliteracy skills (language, reading, and cognitive-linguistic skills in both Chinese and English) jointly and investigated the effects of biliteracy skill performance in these three categories on cognitive skills (working memory and attentional control) in Chinese L1 children who were exposed to English as L2 beginning at age 3 ("early") or in grade 3 ("late"). In this cross-sectional study, 10 parallel Chinese and English language, reading, and cognitive-linguistic measures were administered to emerging Chinese-English bilingual children in grade 3 (

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attentionchildrenChinese–English bi-scriptal exposureearly exposuremorphological awarenessword recognitionworking memory

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