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