Cover of Cognition, Culture and Language in Bilingual Children

Book 1996

Cognition, Culture and Language in Bilingual Children

Publisher
University Press of America
Language
English
Published
1996
  • Cognition in children
  • Bilingualism in children
  • Language and culture
  • Children, language
  • Bilingualism

This important revised study highlights the construction of a strong psycholinguistic model that can explain how bilingual children develop cognitively and linguistically in a Spanish/English speaking setting. Conceptualized with the objective of developing a novel and strong psycholinguistic model, this research study explains how young children develop cognitively and linguistically when they have been immersed in a bicultural and bilingual environment.

This study proves that bilingualism can be an enrichment for cognitive development, provided that cognitive cultural and linguistics variables are manipulated in a quasi-experimental rigorous research design that enables children to learn more successfully.