Bilingualism, cognitive functioning, executive control functions, educational level, knowledge, memory
This work was born out of a reflection on whether the ability to speak more than one language actually confers better cognitive functioning after finding that the extensive research that has been conducted on how the use of both languages can affect some executive control functions were inconclusive with sometimes contradictory results.
[...] The participants were mixed in gender and age, and they were from different educational levels. Data collection tools were cognitive tests which were based on different scales to assess different domains. The scales were: Raven Test, BPVS test, Simon, and Tower of London tests. Data was analysed using the SPSS (Statistical package for the social sciences) where different types of data will be assessed in the form of Descriptive Statistics and ANOVA Analysis. Data was presented in tables and rules of ethics were adhered through acquisition of permission from relevant authorities. [...]
[...] It is further identified from this study that there are factors that have been identified to impact EF is that monolinguals have effective and good performance on the EF tasks as compared to bilinguals. The system of bilingual language manages the selection of language by giving focus to the targeted language and avoiding the interference of the competitive language in the recruitment of mechanism of overall attention. As a result, the main experience of bilinguals helps to manage attention based on two mutually activated languages that offer training in selective attention, which is a very central and important element of EF. Thank you for your attention. [...]
[...] Assessment of Performance of Executive Function Tasks Between Bilinguals and Monolinguals Thanks : First of all, I would like to thank you for agreeing to evaluate my work by being part of this jury and for your interest. It is an honor for me to present my work to you today and to discuss the conclusions of my research. I also take this opportunity to thank my thesis director for his supervision and his benevolence as well as my friends, my family, my colleagues and all the members of the public for their presence. [...]
[...] The resolution of this kind of competition with the help of recruitment of executive function advantages the executive function mechanism in general. Though the forecasts related to bilingual benefits in executive function and the difficulties in the lexical processing are robust, the bilingual benefit in executive function is becoming elusive in the current studies with the younger adults. From the outcomes of the studies that are reported above, it is considered as the utilization of verbal in contradiction to the materials of nonverbal and it is regarded as a factor that minimises or reverse the threat of bilingual benefits in the tasks of EF (Antón et al. [...]
[...] The other hypothesis of our study is regarding the socioeconomic wellbeing which tests the linkage between the socio-economic including age and education and executive function are important to assess based on the constructs forecasted based on the essential outcomes of life like academic achievement and different measures of adult health. Though there were significant effects of socio-economic variables and age, the factors did not interact. The impact of childhood socioeconomic status did not consider varying across the broader range of testing of age. From the results of Denervaud et al. (2019), it is suggested that the socioeconomic differences in executive function are formulated in early life and possesses stability in adulthood. [...]
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