Assessment of working memory in bilingual children

Pages:159-165
Suma Raju (JSS Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysuru, Karnataka)
Nuggehalli Puttaveeraiah Nataraja (Director, JSS, Institute of Speech and Hearing, Mysuru, Karnataka)

Bilingual and multilingual language acquisition may affect language and cognitive skills of children. Present study investigated the executive loaded working memory skills in Kannada-English bilingual children. The study compared verbal and visuo-spatial working memory skills between mono and bilinguals of two different age groups. A total of 120 monolingual and 120 bilingual children participated in the study. Results of the study found that bilinguals perform better than monolinguals on two different working memory tasks considered in both age groups.