#3958. Evidence for executive function advantages in low SES bilingual children. But why do they arise? A commentary on Grote, Scott and Gilger (20XX)

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Abstract:
In a study comparing executive functions among Spanish-English bilinguals from low socio-economic (SES) backgrounds to monolinguals of each language, the research finds that bilingual advantages already manifest themselves in pre-school children. This commentary recommends building on this finding, and further investigate the causes underlying the observed executive function (EF) modulations in child bilingualism. A closer investigation of bilingual children’s dominance profiles and their bilingual practices, such as code-switching, may shed light on how bilingualism shapes the developmental trajectory of executive functions. The commentary also challenges the notion of ‘monolingualism’, and discusses whether bilingualism variables should be operationalised in a continuous or in a categorical manner.
Keywords:
Bilingualism; code-switching; cognition; executive functions; psycholinguistics

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