Browsing UiS Brage by Author "Melby-Lervåg, Monica"
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Bilingualism : Advantages and Disadvantages in Cognitive Processing, Language and Reading Comprehension
Gunnerud, Hilde Lowell (PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2021-03)The overall aim of this study is, as suggested by Bialystok (2009), to investigate whether bilingual learners have an advantage in executive functions and a disadvantage in language compared to monolingual learners. In ... -
Levels of skills and predictive patterns of reading comprehension in bilingual children with an early age of acquisition
Gunnerud, Hilde Lowell; Foldnes, Njål; Melby-Lervåg, Monica (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Bilingualism appears to be related to poor language and reading comprehension in the instructional language (L2). However, in the long term, an early age of second language acquisition (AoA) may produce higher levels of ...