Is There an Association between Executive Function and Receptive Vocabulary in Bilingual Children? A Longitudinal Examination

Dual language management has been proposed as the reason for bilingual children’s sometimes enhanced executive functioning (EF). We sought to identify the directionality of the relation between language proficiency and EF, using measures of receptive vocabulary, inhibitory control, and cognitive fle...

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Main Authors: Vanessa Diaz, Maria Borjas, M. Jeffrey Farrar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-01-01
Series:Children
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/8/1/44