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Does bilingualism really affect social flexibility?

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Ikizer and Ramirez-Esparza (2017) reported a study suggesting that bilingualism may have a positive impact on people's social skills. They found that a) bilinguals scored higher on a scale that is supposed to reveal social flexibility, and that b) they also report having social interactions more frequently than monolinguals. The authors relate this advantage in social flexibility to the need of exercising language switching in bilingual speakers. In this commentary, we argue that their arguments are not theoretically sound and that their observations are not compelling enough to reach this conclusion.

Does bilingualism really affect social flexibility?

Urheber*in: Vives, Marc Lluís; Repke, Lydia; Costa, Albert

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1469-1841
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Seite(n): 952-956
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Englisch
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Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 21(5)

Subject
Psychologie
Allgemeine Psychologie
Mehrsprachigkeit
soziale Kompetenz
kognitive Fähigkeit
Interaktion

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Vives, Marc Lluís
Repke, Lydia
Costa, Albert
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Vereinigtes Königreich
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2018

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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-62488-3
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  • Vives, Marc Lluís
  • Repke, Lydia
  • Costa, Albert

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