Bilingual Learners

The question that will be investigated is, “Is bilingual or non-bilingual students independent on intelligence?” Several studies, such as Bialystok et al; Oller, Pearson & Cobo-Lewis, 2007 contributed to better understanding of the cognitive development in bilingual and monolingual children. The results also showed that monolingual and bilingual children performed equivalently on a test of fluid intelligence but monolingual children obtained higher scores than bilinguals on a test of English receptive vocabulary. This study has presented useful information on bilingual and monolingual people. This investigation was interesting because i’m bilingual and I was curious to know if bilingual kids did have a better memory recall than monolingual …show more content…
These researchers used kindergarten 5 year olds. In total it was 56 children which included 29 monolingual boys and 27 bilingual boys. These kids had a background of speaking english at school or any other place outside the community and the second language was spoken at home. The procedure for this study was all participants were tested individually and had to fulfil 2 tasks. These two tests were the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT-III, Dunn & Dunn, 1997) “to assess receptive vocabulary in English, and the matrices subtest of Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (K-BIT, Kaufman & Kaufman, 2004) to evaluate the equivalency of both groups on fluid intelligence” (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov). See appendix A for …show more content…
In Bialystok et al; Oller, Pearson & Cobo-Lewis, 2007 experiment on monolingual and bilingual kids, their results showed that depending on the tests bilingual scored better than monolingual and vise versa. For example monolingual kids did better than bilingual kids on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test which assessed receptive vocabulary in English, but bilingual kids did better on the matrices subtest of Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (K-BIT, Kaufman & Kaufman, 2004) to “evaluate the equivalency of both groups on fluid intelligence”. In the Chi-square process, the results showed that bilingual kids had a higher calculation on chi-square that monolingual kids. The validity of these calculations can be valid. I did my best to complete each step of the chi-square correctly. With the calculations made, i can agree with my hypothesis that bilingual kids do have a better memory recall than monolingual kids. Although these results were from 5 year old, it could be good to see an expirenmetn possiby similar to this with teenagera or aduts to see if there is a