AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.

The language ecology of bilingual memory.

Academic Exchange Quarterly

| September 22, 2005 | Haritos, Calliope | COPYRIGHT 2005 Rapid Intellect Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Abstract

The present research examined language(s)-memory relations among compound bilingual children. Findings revealed the importance of language socialization with respect to language behavior exhibited by participants at recall. Bilinguals exhibited significant gains, with increased language experience, in communicative and conceptual linguistic competence, and metalinguistic competence. Results suggest that bilingual memory is not a dormant, cognitive state but a dynamic mosaic of reciprocal relations between individual, cognitive, social, contextual, and behavioral factors.

Introduction

The focus of the present study was on the ...

Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
Linguistic Diversity and National Unity: Language Ecology in Thailand.
Magazine article from: Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Hartmann, John September 1, 1996 700+ words
...William A. Smalley begins his masterful work on language ecology in Thailand with the observation that unlike India...and passion that enlivens his descriptions of the language ecology of Thailand. The book is ingeniously divided into...
Bilingual Minds: Emotional Experience, Expression, and Representation.(Brief...
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News August 1, 2006 700+ words
...guilt and shame across the Mediterranean, monlingual and bilingual memory and the labeling and conceptualization of envy and jealousy...cognitive approaches to the study of emotion in monolingual and bilingual memory, choosing a first language as more emotional, and the...
Choco Milk Launches Mobile Tour to Teach Children Nutrition Awareness.
Magazine article from: Food & Beverage Close-Up September 9, 2009 700+ words
...children will learn where milk comes from and how to improve its flavor and nutritional value by adding Choco Milk. Also, a bilingual memory game, featuring Pancho Pantera in different professions, will strengthen their cognitive skills in English and in Spanish...
Choco Milk Initiates Adventure-Filled Mobile Tour That Teaches Children...
Press release article from: PR Newswire September 3, 2009 700+ words
...children will learn where milk comes from and how to improve its flavor and nutritional value by adding Choco Milk. Also, a bilingual memory game, featuring Pancho Pantera in different professions, will strengthen their cognitive skills in English and in Spanish...
Bilingual knowledge maps (BiK maps) as a presentation format: delayed recall...
Magazine article from: The Journal of Experimental Education Bahr, G. Susanne Dansereau, Donald F. January 1, 2005 700+ words
...novice foreign language learners emerges from Paivio's (1971, 1978) dual code hypothesis, which has been extended to bilingual memory (Paivio & Desrochers, 1980; Paivio & Lambert, 1981). Dual coding suggests that learners do not only remember...
Bilinguality and Bilingualism.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review Lanvers, Ursula October 1, 2001 700+ words
...models of information-processing in bilinguals, such as the well-known coordinate-compound dichotomy and models of bilingual memory storage, revealing the Competition model of a shared representational form-function mapping as the most convincing to...
Research results from A.V. Kharkhurin and colleagues update understanding of...
Newspaper article from: Life Science Weekly September 2, 2008 700+ words
...A.V. Kharkhurin and colleagues (see also Life Sciences). The researchers concluded: "A specific architecture of bilingual memory in which two lexicons are mutually linked to the shared conceptual system is theorized to facilitate the functioning of...
Language and modeling word problems in mathematics among bilinguals.
Magazine article from: The Journal of Psychology Bernardo, Allan B.I. September 1, 2005 700+ words
...variations in the results merely point to finer theoretical and possibly methodological issues related to the study of bilingual memory for words. Although these theoretical issues relate to memory and the lexicon, they have important implications and applications...
For more facts and information, see all results
©2009 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
About us | FAQs | Contact us | Privacy policy | Terms and conditions
Other Gale sites: Encyclopedia.com | HighBeam Research | Acquire Content | Books & Authors | Goliath | MovieRetriever | Smart QandA