Role of bilingual experience in children's context-sensitive selective trust strategies

• Autores: W. Quin Yow, Xiaoqian Li
• Localización: Bilingualism: Language and cognition, ISSN 1366-7289, Vol. 27, Nº 1, 2024, págs. 95-106
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Early bilingual language experience can enhance children's social-cognitive skills for effective communication. This study examined whether individual variability in bilingual language diversity, measured by language entropy, influenced 3- to 5-year-old children's engagement of contextual information in their selective trust strategies. One-hundred-and-forty Singaporean children (58 girls, Mage = 53.64 months, 97.1% Asian) were presented with an informant who provided either accurate or inaccurate information in a context with either adequate or limited information access. Bilingual children with greater language diversity, compared to those with less language diversity, were more likely to adapt their accuracy-based selective trust strategy to the informant's circumstances (i.e, information access). Results provide new insights into the role of diverse linguistic experiences in shaping children's social cognitive development.