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Article 1: Kroll, J. F., Bobb, S. C., & Hoshino, N. (2014). Two languages in mind: Bilingualism as a tool to investigate language, cognition, and the brain. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 23(3), 159-163. doi:10.1177/0963721414528511

Summary: A series of discoveries in the past two decades has changed the way we think about bilingualism and its implications for language and cognition.

Article 2: Goriot, C., Denessen, E., Bakker, J., & Droop, M. (2016). Benefits of being bilingual? The relationship between pupils’ perceptions of teachers’ appreciation of their home language and executive functioning. International Journal of Bilingualism, 20(6), 700-713. doi:10.1177/1367006915586470

Summary: This article investigates whether bilingual pupil’s perceptions of teachers’ appreciation of their home language were of influence on bilingual cognitive advantages.

Article 3: Vaughn, C. R., & Bradlow, A. R. (2016). Processing relationships between language-being-spoken and other speech dimensions in monolingual and bilingual listeners. Language and Speech, doi:10.1177/0023830916669536

Summary: While indexical information is implicated in many levels of language processing, little is known about the internal structure of the system of indexical dimensions, particularly in bilinguals.