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How Cognitive Abilities May Support Children’s Bilingual Literacy Development in a Multilingual Society ...
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Underprivileged but highly multilingual Indian children often show low literacy performance. As a complicating factor, these children are often expected to develop literacy not just in the regionally dominant language but also in English. As good literacy skills are crucial for later academic development, it is important to identify factors that could support these children’s literacy development. We, therefore, investigated whether cognitive abilities are associated with literacy development and whether they are so in the same way for both of these children’s languages. In a longitudinal design (Std. 4 and Std. 5), literacy data in Hindi and English were collected from 336 children in Delhi, India. In addition, three cognitive tasks (Raven’s, 2-back, Flanker) were performed. We found that bilingual literacy development is evident across children, although the starting point is low in some cases. Fluid intelligence (Raven’s) and working memory capacity (2-back) significantly positively related to literacy ...
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cognition; disadvantaged contexts; fluid intelligence; generalized additive models; inhibition; literacy; multilingualism; working memory
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.17863/cam.81391 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/333974
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Learning rate and success as a function of code-switching strategies in the input
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In: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, vol 43, iss 43 (2021)
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The Rhyme Inhibition Task: How Competing Phonological and Semantic Cues Influence Language Production ...
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Learning rate and success as a function of code-switching strategies in the input ...
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How Children Process Reduced Forms: A Computational Cognitive Modeling Approach to Pronoun Processing in Discourse.
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The role of discourse in Italian pronoun interpretation: Investigating variations in experimental results with cognitive modeling ...
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Linguistic diversity, multilingualism, and cognitive skills: A study of disadvantaged children in India ...
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Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Processing of Complex Sentences: An fMRI Study ...
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Linguistic Diversity, Multilingualism, and Cognitive Skills : A Study of Disadvantaged Children in India
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In: Languages ; 5 (2020), 1. - 10. - MDPI Publishing. - eISSN 2226-471X (2020)
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The role of discourse in Italian pronoun interpretation: Investigating variations in experimental results with cognitive modeling
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Vogelzang, Margreet. - : Proceedings of ICCM 2019 - 17th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, 2020
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Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Processing of Complex Sentences: An fMRI Study
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Linguistic diversity, multilingualism, and cognitive skills: A study of disadvantaged children in India
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