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Download full textHakuta, Kenji – 1985
Theory and research on bilingualism and its relationship to cognitive development have provided mixed results, especially in relation to the value of United States bilingual education programs. Little of the existing research on bilingualism is generalizable to U.S. minority language groups. However, one study of children in a bilingual program…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Cognitive Development, Elementary Secondary Education
O'Gorman, Elizabeth – TEANGA: The Irish Yearbook of Applied Linguistics, 1996
A study investigated the organization and development of second language lexicons among Hong Kong learners of English as a Second Language (ESL). Specifically, it compared the associations promoted by a single list of 20 frequent, common words in the learners' native language (L1, Chinese) and second language (L2, English). Subjects were 22…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Chinese, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
