You Are Testing the Cognitive Abilities of Three Groups of Bilingual

question 10

Multiple Choice

You are testing the cognitive abilities of three groups of bilingual French-English speakers in Montreal, whose native language is French: university students, English teachers, and French-English interpreters. On a test of reading span, administered in English, you would expect that

• A) The teachers would perform the best, followed by the interpreters and the students.
• B) there would be no significant differences between the groups.
• C) the interpreters would perform significantly better than the teachers and students.
• D) the interpreters and teachers would perform similarly, and would outperform the students significantly.

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