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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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How Cognitive Abilities May Support Children’s Bilingual Literacy Development in a Multilingual Society
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In: Languages; Volume 7; Issue 1; Pages: 33 (2022)
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Relative functional load determines co-articulatory movements of the tongue tip ...
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Twenty-eight years of vowels: Tracking phonetic variation through young to middle age adulthood
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Twenty-eight years of vowels: Tracking phonetic variation through young to middle age adulthood
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Native language influence on brass instrument performance: An application of generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs) to midsagittal ultrasound images of the tongue
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Individual differences and patterns of convergence in prosody perception
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In: Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology; Vol 8, No 1 (2017); 22 ; 1868-6354 (2017)
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