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Cognitive development in bilingual and monolingual lower‐class children
Author(s) -
Myers Barbara,
Goldstein David
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6807(197901)16:1<137::aid-pits2310160124>3.0.co;2-z
Subject(s) - psychology , nonverbal communication , cognition , neuroscience of multilingualism , developmental psychology , class (philosophy) , artificial intelligence , neuroscience , computer science
Abstract The cognitive development of lower‐class English‐speaking monolingual and English‐Spanishs peaking bilingual children in kindergarten, third, and sixth grades was compared by means of standard verbal and nonverbal measures. The verbal ability of bilingual children was assessed in both English and Spanish. Their scores in both languages were lower than those of monolingual children. However, the mean scores and error patterns of both groups on nonverbal measures were equivalent, suggesting that bilingual and monolingual children have comparable cognitive skills despite apparent language differences.