Author(s)

Shan Xu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Department of Child and Adolescent Development, College of Education, California State University, Sacramento, United States

Corresponding Author

Shan Xu

ABSTRACT

To investigate whether bilingualism brings cognitive benefits on human's brain and development in lifetime, this paper explains the mechanism of working memory and bilingualism to explore how bilingualism affects children's working memory from early childhood to the later stage, whether there is greater effect on earlier childhood than later? Through interpreting some current research and literature, this journal article reviews that bilingualism may not directly affect the breadth of children's working memory. However, bilingualism enhances children's cognitive abilities in the process of language conversion in their brains. And bilingual children's cognitive advantages are also demonstrated at higher levels of cognitive processing from early childhood to later adulthood.

KEYWORDS

Bilingualism, Cognitive Development, Executive Function, Working Memory, Early Childhood Education

CITE THIS PAPER

Shan Xu, Bilingual Children's Working Memory Development Research: The Inquiry of Effects between Early Childhood and Later Stages. Applied & Educational Psychology (2023) Vol. 4: 44-47. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/appep.2023.040907.

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