Psychology
7 years ago

Advanced bilinguals excel in L2 but struggle with native language recognition.

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Bilingual Lexical Activation in Sentence and Non-sentence Context: A Study of Cross-language Lexical Processing
Mehraban Hamavandy, Mohammad Golshan

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The study looked at how well people who speak two languages can recognize words in each language. They had ten Persian speakers who were learning English read texts in both languages. The results showed that those who were more advanced in English were better at remembering English words, but they were slower at recognizing Persian words compared to beginners.

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