Craft and StructureHardTwo texts on bilingual children
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
Bilingual children outperform monolingual children on tests of attention, which suggests that managing two languages trains the mind.
Text 2
The advantage appears in studies that compare bilingual children from wealthier families with monolingual children from poorer ones. When family income is matched, the difference largely disappears.
Based on the texts, the author of Text 2 would most likely say that the finding in Text 1 ____
- A. may reflect differences in family income rather than an effect of bilingualism.Correct
- B. proves that bilingualism trains the mind.
- C. shows that monolingual children have better attention.
- D. is impossible to test.
Answer: A. may reflect differences in family income rather than an effect of bilingualism.
Income as the hidden variable.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. proves that bilingualism trains the mind.
- Text 2 questions the effect.
- C. shows that monolingual children have better attention.
- Text 2 says the difference disappears, not reverses.
- D. is impossible to test.
- Text 2 describes how it was tested better.
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