From Language Control to General Executive Functions: The Effects of Bilingualism on Interference Tasks Among College Students

Performance of 71 bilingual and 78 monolingual college students on Simon, Stroop and a revised Digit-Symbol Match tasks were compared, no significant group difference was found. Correlations between bilinguals’ language variables (e.g., age of L2 acquisition, frequency of use) and their performance on the above tasks were analyzed and discussed.