Listar por tema "Bilingualism"
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A cross-sectional and longitudinal study on the protective effect of bilingualism against dementia using brain atrophy and cognitive measures.
Springer (2020-01-10)Background: Evidence from previous studies suggests that bilingualism contributes to cognitive reserve because bilinguals manifest the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) up to 5 years later than monolinguals. ... -
Acquiring English as a third language "Romanians in a multicultural cotext"
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-14)Since the last two decades, third language acquisition (TLA)has drawn the attention of many linguists such as ( Cenoz & Jessner, 2000; Cenoz & Genesee, 1998; Jorda, 2005) among others. However, linguists have found several ... -
Benefits bilingual children should have when learning English as a Third language
Universitat Jaume I (2017)The use of English as a lingua franca in Europe has increased the importance of language learning processes in modern education. Since an early age, English is introduced in the educational programmes. This research is ... -
Bilingualism and dementia: neural mechanisms and implications for cognitive reserve
Universitat Jaume I (2022-05-18)Multiple studies have found that bilinguals show the first symptoms of dementia later than monolinguals. Therefore, it is hypothesized that bilingualism could protect against dementia, but the neural bases of this protective ... -
Bilingualism as a protective factor against dementia: a morphometry study using a homogeneous sample
Universitat Jaume I (2018-07-24)Evidence from previous studies suggests that bilingualism contributes to cognitive reserve, since bilinguals manifest the first symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) up to five years later than monolinguals. Other studies ... -
Características del aprendizaje integrado de contenidos de educación física y lengua extranjera
Federación Española de Asociaciones de Docentes de Educación Física (FEADEF) (2016)El aprendizaje de inglés se ha convertido en los últimos tiempos en uno de los principales objetivos del sistema educativo, y es clara la propuesta de que la adquisición de esta lengua se lleve a cabo a través de contenidos. ... -
Corpus exploitation for terminological purposes: a proposed term extraction process for bilingual specialised dictionary elaboration
Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (2011)The method and outcomes described in this research are part of a wider project aimed at creating a specialised, bilingual dictionary on industrial ceramics. One of the key stages in the elaboration of such a work is the ... -
Do bilinguals show neural differences with monolinguals when processing their native language?
Elsevier (2015-03)The present research used fMRI to measure brain activity in passive listening and picture-naming tasks with a group of early high proficient Spanish–Catalan bilinguals, in which Spanish was dominant, and a group of Spanish ... -
Early language learning: bilingualism
Universitat Jaume I (2016-06-14)The 21st century is characterized as the great revolution of language learning because of the necessity to communicate and either to become a well-prepared person in a world where globalisation is a current issue. The ... -
Effects of bilingualism on white matter atrophy in mild cognitive impairment: a diffusion tensor imaging study
Wiley (2019-12-05)Background and purpose:Previous investigations show that bilinguals exhibitthe first symptoms of dementia 4–5 years later than monolinguals. Therefore,bilingualism has been proposed as a cognitive reserve mechanism. Recent ... -
Neural bases of language switching in high and early proficient bilinguals
Elsevier (2011-12)The left inferior frontal cortex, the caudate and the anterior cingulate have been proposed as the neural origin of language switching, but most of the studies were conducted in low proficient bilinguals. In the present ... -
Neural correlates of audiovisual speech processing in a second language
Elsevier (2013-09)Neuroimaging studies of audiovisual speech processing have exclusively addressed listeners’ native language (L1). Yet, several behavioural studies now show that AV processing plays an important role in non-native (L2) ... -
Neural differences between monolinguals and early bilinguals in their native languaje during comprehension
Elsevier (2015-11)Research has shown that semantic processing of sentences engages more activity in the bilingual compared to the monolingual brain and, more specifically, in the inferior frontal gyrus. The present study aims to extend those ... -
El régimen jurídico del plurilingüismo en la enseñanza no universitaria en España
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) (2016)Hasta ahora los diferentes modelos educativos de la enseñanza en lenguas se han venido clasificando en sistemas de opción y conjunción lingüística según posibilitasen elegir el idioma que iba a ocupar un lugar central en ... -
The portrayal of intergenerational bilingual contexts in TV seriesfrom a multimodal perspective: the case ofthe Villanueva familyin Jane the Virgin
Universitat Jaume I (2021-06-09)Over the last few decades, television and film companies have started to show more linguistic diversity in their productionsby portraying bilingual and even multilingual scenariosin anattemptto ...