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Naculabulakids OP t1_jaeyt9l wrote

Reply to comment by Nameless-Servant in Seeking Monolingual English participants for test of visio-spatial reasoning skills and perpsective taking mechanisms and how this might be mediated by mono/bilingualism. Experiment is a game based on memory and visio-spatial cues by Naculabulakids

The monolingual category describes those who are fluent in one language and have minimal knowledge in another language e.g. the person who remembers how to conjugate a few verbs or even a tense or two or have a very basic conversation in Spanish is considered monolingual in my study

Bilinguals are those who are fluent in 2 languages. They are comfortable expressing and understanding most ideas in 2 languages

I disqualify those who I consider grey-area participants. Those who have an intermediate knowledge of another language e.g. someone who can have conversations in a second language about many topics but would struggle to express more complex ideas. In terms of Spanish, I would say a person with intermediate knowledge could conjugate most tenses but would struggle in the more difficult aspects of speaking such as the subjunctive forms or idioms

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