Thesis
THE RELATION BETWEEN LANGUAGE FLUENCY AND LANGUAGE APPLICATION WITH EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING IN MONOLINGUAL, BI/MULTILINGUAL COLLEGE-AGED INDIVIDUALS
Washington State University
Master of Science (MS), Washington State University
01/2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000003149
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/122247
Abstract
Research has shown that bilingual individuals may have an advantage pertaining to tasks of executive functioning (EF) due to greater mental flexibility and inhibition of non-relevant stimuli. However, the extent of this advantage is unknown especially related to how often the additional language(s) is used, the level of language fluency in one or more languages, and, if any, when additional languages were learned. The current study aimed to understand the relation between language fluency and EF among monolingual and bi/multilingual individuals, how language usage frequency may relate to EF, and the importance of age of acquisition of language. No significant relation between language fluency and EF or between language application and EF was found for the full sample. Likewise, age of acquisition did not predict EF among the bi/multilingual group, nor did it moderate the relation of other language variables with EF. Potential explanations for the lack of significant findings related to specific neurocognitive measures given and demographics of participants are explored.
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- Title
- THE RELATION BETWEEN LANGUAGE FLUENCY AND LANGUAGE APPLICATION WITH EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING IN MONOLINGUAL, BI/MULTILINGUAL COLLEGE-AGED INDIVIDUALS
- Creators
- Shelby Lee Johnson
- Contributors
- Tammy D Barry (Advisor)Christopher Barry (Committee Member)Maria Gartstein (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Psychology, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Science (MS), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 74
- Identifiers
- 99900652003101842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis