Mitsunori Takakuwa (*) What i...

Mitsunori Takakuwa (*)

What is cognitive disentanglement in the studies of bilingualism? The belief widely held up to the 1960 that bilingualism had merely negative effects on children's cognitive disclosure as measured by I.Q. has been challenged. It is now believed that bilingualism has a positive event on children's cognitive development (eg Bialystok 1938; Day and Shapson 1996; Palij and Homel 1987) However, the area to which the bourn cognitive development refers is broad and vague. An examination of the literature give an inkling ofs that the study of bilingualism has no other than shown ...