The influence of bilingualism on cognitive growth a synthesis of research findings and explanatory hypotheses working papers on bilingualism no 9 attain both in order to avoid cognitive deficits and allow the potentially beneficial aspects of becoming bilingual to influence his cognitive functioning author. Bound in working papers on bilingualism no 9 be004566 abstract an attempt is made to resolve inconsistencies between the results of recent studies which report that bilingualism is associated with positive cognitive consequences and earlier studies which have suggested that bilingualism might adversely affect cognitive and scholastic progress. The influence of bilingualism on cognitive growth a synthesis of research findings and explanatory hypotheses james cunsnfns educational research centre st patricks college dublin in recent years there has been a remarkable reversal of the research evidence regarding the influence of bilingualism on cognition. An attempt is made in the present paper to resolve inconsistencies between the results of recent studies which have reported that bilingualism is associated skip to main content search the history of over 347 billion web pages on the internet. The influence of bilingualism on cognitive growth a synthesis of research findings and explanatory hypotheses working papers on bilingualism no 9 article january 1976 with 505 reads