Question

I am going to write a paper about bilingual childern and social or cognitive development. I would like to have initial thoughts that can fit as my hypotheis. Pls use the keypord to answer this question.

Answer 1

Social and cognitive development involves a broad range of changes. In order to be able to establish your hypothesis, it would be helpful to break it down into specific aspects of social or cognitive development. For instance, many studies have demonstrated how bilinguals are better able to use their executive function of their working memory to perform better on many problem solving tasks (because of his cognitive inhibition abilities). This area has been much researched about but maybe you can find some other specific cognitive tasks as well. I feel tha social development will be slightly more difficult to study as social interactions are difficult to record and measure.