The Journal of psychology
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The Journal of psychology · May 2002
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical TrialLanguage and mathematical problem solving among bilinguals.
Does using a bilingual's 1st or 2nd language have an effect on problem solving in semantically rich domains like school mathematics? The author conducted a study to determine whether Filipino-English bilingual students' understanding and solving of word problems in arithmetic differed when the problems were in the students' 1st and 2nd languages. Two groups participated-students whose 1st language was Filipino and students whose 1st language was English-and easy and difficult arithmetic problems were used. ⋯ Moreover, the advantage was more marked with the easy problems. The theoretical and practical implications of the results are discussed.