Elisabet Garcia Gonzalez

• González, Elisabet García; Lahdenranta, Sonja & Lehtonen, Minna (2025). Are executive functions engaged in language switching? The role of language proficiency. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. ISSN 1366-7289. doi: 10.1017/S1366728925100199. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  We investigated whether executive functions (EFs) are engaged in bilingual language control in Finnish speakers with different degrees of Swedish language experience and proficiency, including early bilinguals, late high-proficiency bilinguals and low-proficiency learners of Swedish. In an online experiment, language switching was measured with a cued naming (CN) paradigm, and a Simon task was used to assess EF performance. Following the skill-learning (task specificity) hypothesis, we expected that language switching may be automatized and no longer rely on EFs in bilinguals with high language proficiency, but not for those with lower proficiency. Thus, we expected significant associations between the tasks in the lower proficiency participants only. Our results showed no CN switching–EF associations in the more experienced L2 speakers, but a significant association in lower-proficiency participants. This suggests that language switching engages EFs only in participants with lower proficiency in whom these processes are not yet automatized.

• González, Elisabet García; Jylkkä, Jussi & Lehtonen, Minna (2024). Ready, steady, switch! Limited evidence for the role of executive functions in bilingual language control in children. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. ISSN 1366-7289. doi: 10.1017/S1366728924000853. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  We investigated the extent to which executive functions (EFs) are recruited in language switching in children in a cued picture-naming (CN) task. We expected to find associations between CN and EF tasks measuring inhibitory control and shifting. Another goal was to compare parent-reported children’s everyday language control ability at home with their switching ability in the CN task and EF performance. The participants were mostly 5–7-year-old Norwegian–Spanish and Finnish–Swedish-speaking children (N = 45). The analysis was preregistered. Unexpectedly, the primary accuracy analysis showed positive associations between CN switching costs and EF performance in only one of the EF tests, flanker, and CN mixing costs were predicted only by the color-shape switch costs. Children’s everyday language control ability did not show consistent significant associations with lab measures. Our study provides weak evidence for the view that EFs are engaged in language control when children have some years of bilingual experience.

• Gonzalez, Elisabet Garcia; Liu, Liquan & Lanza, Elizabeth (2023). Language in multilingual families during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway: A survey of challenges and opportunities. Multilingua - Journal of Cross-cultural and Interlanguage Communiciation. ISSN 0167-8507. doi: 10.1515/multi-2023-0011. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Abstract The first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in school closures and homeschooling for families across the world. This provided a unique scenario to investigate multilingual family language interaction, and specifically, challenges and opportunities for home language (HL) use. This study is rooted in Family Language Policy (FLP) research, building on previous models of language policy as language beliefs, practices and management, as it addresses the effects of the lockdown on the use of, and exposure to, HLs. An online survey was used to assess the language beliefs, practices and management in a sample of families in Norway, a country with a significant and complex linguistic diversity. Our results indicate overall positive attitudes towards multilingualism in Norway, which are associated with an increased use of, and exposure to, Norwegian and HLs during the lockdown. Furthermore, we find a unique presence of English in multilingual families in Norway, especially across online spaces. Lastly, our study shows that the perception of multilingualism as a source of well-being is associated with positive effects of the lockdown in the use of HLs during the pandemic. We contend that this result can be taken as an example that, even in dire times of despair, families can find opportunities to promote multilingualism and language maintenance.

• Osch, Brechje van; Gonzalez, Elisabet Garcia; Hulk, Aafke; Sleeman, Petra & Aalberse, Suzanne (2019). The development of subject position in dutch-dominant heritage speakers of spanish: From age 9 to adulthood. Languages. 4(4). doi: 10.3390/languages4040088. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• González, Elisabet García; Jylkkä, Jussi & Lehtonen, Minna (2023). The role of executive functions in bilingual language control in children. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• González, Elisabet García; Jylkkä, Jussi & Lehtonen, Minna (2023). The role of executive functions in bilingual language control in children. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Kartushina, Natalia; Onnis, Luca; Rosslund, Audun; Singh, Arun Prakash; White, Michelle Jennifer & Theimann, Ane [Vis alle 14 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2023). Babies and kids - how do they acquire and learn multiple lects? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Köder, Franziska Maria; Kyriacou, Marianna; Lehtonen, Minna; González, Elisabet García; Fyndanis, Valantis & Gardner, Qingyuan Liu (2023). Language and cognitive processes in the multilingual brain. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• González, Elisabet García; Lahdenranta, Sonja & Lehtonen, Minna (2023). Are executive functions engaged in language switching? The role of language proficiency. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• González, Elisabet García (2022). Podcast Interview - La ciencia de los niños bilingües. [Radio]. Podcast, Noosfera. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Gonzalez, Elisabet Garcia (2022). Does the apple not fall far from the tree? Why the same research questions might have different answers depending on where you ask them. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Rosslund, Audun; Gonzalez, Elisabet Garcia; Olstad, Anne Marte Haug & White, Michelle Jennifer (2022). Pitfalls in experimental designs: Assumptions and misconceptions. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Gonzalez, Elisabet Garcia (2022). La lingüística da mucho de lo que hablar. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• González, Elisabet García (2022). El multilingüismo a lo largo de la vida: aspectos sociales y cognitivos. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• González, Elisabet García (2022). How Multilingualism Helped Families in Lockdown. [Journal]. Future Makers Magazine. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Gonzalez, Elisabet Garcia (2022). To test or not to test. The decline of “one method fits all” in experimental language research. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• González, Elisabet García (2021). Homecoming: Multilingualism as a source of family wellbeing amidst the global pandemic. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• González, Elisabet García; Liu, Liquan & Lanza, Elizabeth (2021). Multilingual Families during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Parental beliefs, practices and opportunities for increased minority language use. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• González, Elisabet García & Lanza, Elizabeth (2021). Languages in Lockdown. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Over the last year, measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic have affected our lives in unprecedented ways. One notable change has been the amount of time children have spent at home during repeated lockdowns and school closures. In families where more than one language is spoken, this new situation had the potential to change patterns of language use. In the spring and summer of 2020, a team of researchers in the UK and one in Norway came together to get a snapshot of language use in multilingual families during the first lockdown through a survey. In this webinar researchers from the Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism (UK), UCL (UK), and MultiLing (Norway) will share some of the insights from this work, and they will be joined on the panel by parents who took part in the research. We welcome audience participation, and there will be ample opportunity to engage with questions from participants.

• González, Elisabet García (2020). Punto de enlace - Elisabet García, investigadora en noruega del multilingüismo -. [Radio]. RTVE - Radio Exterior - Punto de enlace. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• González, Elisabet García (2020). Growing up Multilingual: The Advantages of Language Switching. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lanza, Elizabeth; Hardach, Sophie & González, Elisabet García (2020). In Quarantine, Kids Pick Up Parents’ Mother Tongues. [Internet]. The New York Times. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• González, Elisabet García (2020). The Cognition behind Language Switching. ¿Qué pasa en nuestra mente? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• González, Elisabet García (2020). Found in translation: Towards a multilingual world. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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