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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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On the role of age of onset and input in early child bilingualism in Greek and Dutch
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In: Applied Psycholinguistics (2014) (2014)
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On the role of age of onset and input in early child bilingualism in Greek and Dutch
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In: In: (Proceedings) Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2010). Cascadilla Proceedings Project (2011) (2011)
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Bilingual acquisition of Greek voice morphology and Dutch gender: What do they have in common?
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In: In: (Proceedings) Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press (2011) (2011)
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