You are testing the cognitive abilities of three groups of bilingual French-English speakers in Montreal, whose native language is French: university students, English teachers, and French-English interpreters. On a test of reading span, administered in English, you would expect that

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Interpreters, due to the nature of their work, often have superior language processing and memory skills, especially in their non-native languages, compared to individuals in professions that do not require constant bilingual or multilingual engagement. This would likely result in interpreters performing significantly better on a test of reading span in English, compared to English teachers, whose focus might be more on pedagogy and grammar than on the cognitive processing of language, and university students, who may not have developed such specialized skills to the same extent.

You Are Testing the Cognitive Abilities of Three Groups of Bilingual