Balanced bilingualism and executive functioning in children

Bilingualism

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 425-431

  Weber, Rachel C ^a   Johnson, Audrea ^b   Riccio, Cynthia A ^c   Liew, Jeffrey ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Frisco Independent School District   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

attention; bilingualism; cognitive control; early childhood; executive functioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940062879     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728915000553     Document Type: Article

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