Abstract | Abstract
Lone Sundahl Olsen and Kristine M. Jensen de LópezTosprogethed som faktor i udviklingen af læsning, skrivning og metakognitive færdigheder. (Bilingualism as a factor in the development of reading, writing and metacognitive skills). The survey of the article examines the reading, writing and metacognitive skills of Danish simultaneous bilingual children. The children were tested in seven different tests which reflect their reading, writing and metacognitive skills. The results were compared to the results of a control group of unilingual children of the same gender and from the same school class. The overall results show that the reading, writing and metacognitive skills of the bilingual children are just as good and in some cases actually better than the results of the unilingual children. The article first presents the theoretical background of the survey, followed by a description of the research design used and selected results from the survey. Finally there is a discussion of the results and their implication for pedagogical practice.