Historical Development and State of the Art in Experimental Research on the “Bilingual Advantage/Disadvantage”

Jansen, Silke; Moral, Sonja Higuera del; Barzen, Jessica Stefanie; Reimann, Pia; Opolka, Markus

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“…Tracing the research lineage of what is known as the "bilingual advantage" leads to the epistemological roots of this discourse as a bilingual disadvantage in intelligence, a construct that gained research traction with the popularization of standardized assessments. Other extensive readings supplement the brief overview here (e.g., Barac & Bialystok, 2011;Jansen et al, 2021). About a hundred years ago, the study of bilingualism and its cognitive consequences began when researchers reported bilingual children and adults had inferior intelligence (Saer, 1923) and bilingual students suffered from low academic achievement due to a persistent "language handicap" (Manuel, 1935, p. 196).…”

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Justice and equity for whom? Reframing research on the “bilingual (dis)advantage”

Luk

2022

Applied Psycholinguistics

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The search for the existence and nonexistence of bilingual advantages and disadvantages has become a battleground marked by polarized comments and perspectives, furthering our understanding of neither bilingualism as an experience nor cognition as higher-level mental processes. In this paper, I provide a brief historical overview of research examining the cognitive and linguistic consequences of multilingualism and address the assumptions underlying research exploring the bilingual behavioral difference. I aim to illustrate the sole focus on behavioral (dis)advantage fails to reflect the complexity and dynamicity of people’s bilingual experiences, thereby distracting from understanding bilingualism. Responding to the call of this special issue, I describe the necessity to focus on people when moving toward a just and equitable future for applied psycholinguistic research. Furthermore, I explain why the nuances of bilingualism need to be recognized beyond binary categorization to advance knowledge about bilingualism and its consequences. To avoid unjust misattribution of a behavioral outcome to people’s life experience and to report research findings in a transparent manner, the myopic representation of the terms “bilingual (dis)advantage” should be recognized and reflected on.

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Section: Situating the Problem Spacementioning

confidence: 98%

Justice and equity for whom? Reframing research on the “bilingual (dis)advantage”

Luk

2022

Applied Psycholinguistics

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Historical Development and State of the Art in Experimental Research on the “Bilingual Advantage/Disadvantage”

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Justice and equity for whom? Reframing research on the “bilingual (dis)advantage”

Justice and equity for whom? Reframing research on the “bilingual (dis)advantage”

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