The Effects of Bilingualism on Non-Linguistic Cognition

A Historic Perspective
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-34680-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 130 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 303 g

This book examines a century of research on the relationship between bilingualism and intelligence and relates it to more recent research on bilingualism and executive functioning. In doing so, it highlights how bilingualism research has been understood and used by wider society and its impact on current debates in cognitive science as well as language policy and education.

The book probes the correlation between the fact that while early intelligence research suggested a negative effect of bilingualism on intelligence, the so-called “Bilingual Problem”, later research implied a positive effect, “the Bilingual Advantage.” It questions whether the negative consequences that arose from the Bilingual Problem are influencing researchers’ reluctance to let go of the Bilingual Advantage. Findings on both the bilingual ‘advantage’ and ‘disadvantage’ are shown to have suffered from similar methodological problems, with research into the former finding itself at the centreof the ongoing replication crisis in psychology.

This book provides fresh insights that will be of particular interest to students and scholars of cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, bilingualism, applied linguistics, education and the history of science.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mattschey, Jennifer

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Geschichte der Psychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Bilingual Education in the Early Twentieth Century.- 3. The Bilingual Problem.- 4. Mid-Twentieth Century: Bilingualism and Intelligence.- 5. Late Twentieth Century: Meta-Linguistics.- 6. The Bilingual Advantage.- 7. Is Bilingualism Good or Bad?.

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer Mattschey is Staff Tutor in Psychology and Counselling and Associate Lecturer in Mental Health Sciences at the Open University, UK. Dr Mattschey is a cognitive psychologist whose research experience includes projects in psycholinguistics, social cognition, perception and attention, as well as brain imaging.