MULTILINGUAL EXPERIENCE AND EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING SKILLS AMONG CHILDREN
Abstract
Presently, there have been doubts raised about the relationship between multilingualism and executive functioning skills in children. The objective of this review was to identify the factors of multiple languages on executive functioning skills. Original articles from google scholar, pub med, research gate and new journals, were all gathered and researched with a cut-off date of May 2024, hereby following the protocols of systematic review and American Psychological Association citations. The experiments, non-standardized tests, non-linguistic and linguistic tasks were administered to analyze if the bilingual brains had different pathways towards executive functioning and if factors like age, gender and motivation plays any part in the process of acquisition or learning. We did find positive relationships between multilingualism and executive functioning tasks among children under the age of 14 years. To conclude, it can be best said that no researcher presented a point that has been universally accepted about multilingual brains having better executive functioning skills
Keywords: Multilingual advantage, executive functioning, children, cognitive processes, bilingualism.
