Psychological Development and Education ›› 2023, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (2): 219-227.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2023.02.08

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The Effects of Second Language Learning on Cognitive Control and Lexical Access in School-age Children: The Influence of Age and Second Language Proficiency

LI Jun1, WANG Yue2, CHEN Xiani1, LI Ying2   

  1. 1. Faculty of Psychology, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387;
    2. Department of Applied Psychology, Zhenghou University, Zhenghou 450001
  • Published:2023-03-11

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Abstract: It is a research focus in the bilingual field currently that what the effects of learning a second language among children will be on cognitive ability and mother tongue development. This study explored the behavioral responses to cognitive control and lexical access among primary school children of different school ages and English proficiency. The experimental results showed that the second graders with high English proficiency showed smaller switching cost and Simon effect size than the same graders with low English proficiency. However, there was no significant difference in cognitive control tasks among the fourth graders and the sixth graders with different English proficiency. Then, children with high English proficiency produce fewer words than children with low proficiency. And the fourth graders and the sixth graders with high English proficiency showed longer picture naming reaction time than those with low English proficiency. Overall, these results indicate that second language learning has a promoting effect on the cognitive control of school-age children. But this effect tends to decrease gradually as children get older. In addition, second language learning also can affect children’s lexical access performance in their mother tongue. But this effect increases gradually as children get older.

Key words: second language proficiency, school-age children, cognitive control, lexical access

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