Does bilingualism really affect social flexibility?
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- dc.contributor.author Vives, Marc-Lluís, 1991-
- dc.contributor.author Repke, Lydia
- dc.contributor.author Costa, Albert, 1970-
- dc.date.accessioned 2021-06-09T08:20:25Z
- dc.date.available 2021-06-09T08:20:25Z
- dc.date.issued 2018
- dc.description.abstract 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.
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- dc.identifier.citation Vives ML, Repke L, Costa A. Does bilingualism really affect social flexibility? Biling (Camb Engl). 2018 Nov;21(5):952-6. DOI: 10.1017/S1366728918000123
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1366728918000123
- dc.identifier.issn 1366-7289
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/47816
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Cambridge University Press
- dc.relation.ispartof Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 2018 Nov;21(5):952-6
- dc.rights © Cambridge University Press. The published version of the article: Vives ML, Repke L, Costa A. Does bilingualism really affect social flexibility? Biling (Camb Engl). 2018 Nov;21(5):952-6 is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1366728918000123
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- dc.subject.keyword Social flexibility
- dc.subject.keyword Bilingualism
- dc.subject.keyword Task-switching
- dc.title Does bilingualism really affect social flexibility?
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