No evidence for effects of Turkish immigrant children's bilingualism on executive functions.

Recent research has increasingly questioned the bilingual advantage for executive functions (EF). We used structural equation modeling in a large sample of Turkish immigrant and German monolingual children (N = 337; aged 5-15 years) to test associations between bilingualism and EF. Our data showed n...

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Main Authors: Nils Jaekel, Julia Jaekel, Jessica Willard, Birgit Leyendecker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209981