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Does bilingualism really affect social flexibility?
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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 fre... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
multilingualism; social competence; cognitive ability; interaction
Classification
General Psychology
Free Keywords
social flexibility; bilingualism; task-switching
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 952-956
Journal
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 21 (2018) 5
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728918000123
ISSN
1469-1841
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications