monolinguals

If you start from the premise that bilinguals don't know the same as two monolinguals, then trying to achieve a monolingual's level of knowledge and performance in your new language is going to frustrate you.

Nataly Kelly: Adventures in Hyperpolyglottery: Inside the Mind of Extreme Language Learners Nataly Kelly 2011

If you start from the premise that bilinguals don't know the same as two monolinguals, then trying to achieve a monolingual's level of knowledge and performance in your new language is going to frustrate you.

Nataly Kelly: Adventures in Hyperpolyglottery: Inside the Mind of Extreme Language Learners Nataly Kelly 2011

The study has proved a significant relation in the high performance among fluent bilinguals in both languages, supporting the threshold theory by Cummins (1976), who stated that bilinguals who achieve high levels of proficiency in both their languages are cognitively more advanced than those with a low level in one language, or monolinguals.

Reading Development in Two Different Contexts:the Case of the English-greek Bilingual Children in UK and in Cyprus « Articles « Literacy News 2009

Multiple language speakers apparently outperform monolinguals because we possess a better attention span for hard tasks.

Stumbling for words on the tip of your tongue « Musings from an overworked translator 2009

Multiple language speakers apparently outperform monolinguals because we possess a better attention span for hard tasks.

2009 October « Musings from an overworked translator 2009

In addition, English monolinguals who are students that are proficient in English but no longer know the heritage language well, and limited bilinguals – students who are not proficient in any language – more frequently reported conflicts between their families, most likely resulting from a general “breakdown in communication” p.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Immersion vs. Bilingual Education 2009

We monolinguals salute you - and wish to include you on our European vacations.

All Greek To Me 2006

Also, monolinguals tend to assume that everyone else sees language in the same way as they do, which is just not true.

Judge to Immigrant Mothers: Learn English or Lose Your Kids 2005

But there is a great many discoursive structures, a lot of semantics and pragmatics, that are not learned until much later, even in monolinguals.

languagehat.com: MULTILINGUAL KID. 2005

Although the vocabulary of bilingual children in a given language was considerably small as compared to monolinguals, the total vocabulary size when both the languages were combined was comparable.

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