Talk:Cognitive effects of bilingualism

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article needs to be edited and expanded...adding it to my talk page. (Patrick 10:03, 12 May 2006 (UTC))[reply]

No offense, but this article seems to be pretty POV, although maybe that's the nature of the subject. Afterall, it's 'Cognative ADVANDATGES'. --65.35.146.19 05:20, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I also do not wish to give offense, but I must agree with the above comment, and Wikipedia's tag about the article having "multiple issues." Assertions are unsupported, and this is not even a sentence: "The different connotations and ideas around a word has in the different languages the child knows allows the child to build a more complex understanding of the word at a younger age." It reads like the wishful thinking of a parent in denial. CousinJohn (talk) 04:16, 21 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The previous comments about this article are still accurate. Perhaps the title of the article could be changed to something more neutral, for instance ‘Cognitive Impact of Bilingualism’? Some of the section headings are also quite vague. While the history section provides a relatively unbiased view of previous research into the cognitive effects of bilingualism, having a section titled ‘Language’ in an article that is about a facet of language is rather confusing. I believe the organization could be improved by more clearly differentiating the ‘History’ section from the remaining sections devoted to the impact of bilingualism on specific cognitive functions. However, the use of specific studies within the individual sections is very helpful. --FionaJEd (talk) 18:50, 17 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What kind of wording would be acceptable as to politically correct describe "advantages"? Is it just in the cognitive area that this is inappropriate, or should we think about speaking more neutrally about, say, the amount of wealth and the "advantages" it may provide? Perhaps saying just "differences of opportunities", not implying that having more access to a variety of "resources" is necessarily "advantageous"? Or, still more related with this subject, perhaps one should pay attention to the articles dealing with the levels of education and vocabulary still in a single language; I fear there may be passages expressing the POV that more education and larger vocabulary may be "advantageous", even cognitively (in fact, the IQ-related studies probably cite the positive correlation of IQ and vocabulary, and are likely to say that higher IQ is "advantageous" to some degree). The same applies for skill acquisitions in general, like math, musical, artistic, or professional training. Who's to say that an skill is an "advantage"? And maybe we should question whether an individual not having acquired any language at all implies in a cognitive "deficit", as it's just the implicit affirmation of an advantage for language acquisition. And if a single language is deemed advantageous over none, that could be used to try to support the POV that more languages may be additionally advantageous.