Post written by François Grosjean. A monolingual (or fractional) view of bilingualism has been prevalent—and still is among some people—when we talk about those who use two or more languages (or ...

“Why does it matter that we have different types of bilinguals?” My friend’s question made me freeze. I had been talking about the spectrum of bilingualism for years, yet I’d never articulated why it ...

The ability to speak two languages often marvels monolinguals, although bilinguals report no difficulties in achieving this feat. Here, we examine how learning and using two languages affect language ...

WASHINGTON -- A new study published in the journal Cerebral Cortex suggests people who speak two languages have more gray matter in the executive control region of the brain. In past decades, much has ...

McGill researchers who examined the writing skills of teenagers in Montreal found that the performance in French of English-French bilinguals was similar to that of near-monolingual francophones.