We focus on bilingual experience as a moderating factor in cognitive, language and academic development.
The BEE Lab, directed by Dr. Gigi Luk at Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at McGill University, focuses on bilingual experience as a moderating factor in cognitive, language, and academic development. The Bilingualism.Experience.Education (B.E.E) Lab, directed by Dr. Gigi Luk at McGill Unviersity, is dedicated to investigating experiences that enhance lifelong learning.
05/02/2021
Hello, Parents!
We are looking for children (ages 6-9) for a study examining how they understand language and text.
The study will be conducted over Zoom for ~2 hours (with multiple breaks). Eligible participants will receive a $20 gift card 🎁 for this session. We will reach out to you again in about 10-12 months for another session.
Click the following link for more information:
bee-lab.ca/research/
Or DM us for more information.
05/02/2021
Hello, Parents!
We are looking for teenagers (ages 12-15) for a study examining how they understand language and text.
The study will be conducted over Zoom for ~2 hours (with multiple breaks). Eligible participants will receive a $20 gift card 🎁 for this session. We will reach out to you again in about 10-12 months for another session.
Click the following link for more information:
bee-lab.ca/research/
Or DM us for more information.
04/13/2021
Hello, Parents!
We are looking for children (ages 6-9) and adolescents (ages 12-15) for a study examining how they understand language and text.
The study will be conducted over Zoom for ~2 hours (including breaks). Eligible participants will receive a $20 gift card 🎁 for this session. We will reach out to you again in about 10-12 months for another session.
Click the following link for more information:
bee-lab.ca/research/
Or DM us for more information.
04/13/2021
Learning a new language is one of many ways to keep you intellectually active. 🧠💪
Learning a new language is good for the brain (even if you never become fluent) You might not become bilingual, but that doesn’t matter, it’s all about enhancing “cognitive reserve.”
03/26/2021
Parents - We are looking for children (ages 6-9) and adolescents (ages 12-15) for a study examining how they understand language and text. The study will be conducted on Zoom for ~2 hours (including breaks). Eligible participants will receive a $20 gift card for this session. We will reach out to you again in about 10-12 months for another session.
Click the following link for more information:
bee-lab.ca/research/
Or PM us for more information.
Current Research Opportunity to Participate in Research Language and Reading Comprehension in Bilingual Children, Adolescents, and Adults(Funded by NSERC Discovery Grant) Language forms the building blocks of liter…
02/22/2021
Montreal parents - March break is coming up next week! We are looking for children (ages 6-9) and adolescents (ages 12-15) for a study looking at how they understand language and text. The study will be conducted on Zoom for ~2 hours (including breaks). Eligible participants will receive a $20 gift card. We will reach out to you again in about 10-12 months.
Fill out the eligibility survey here:
Children - http://bit.ly/BEELCIntakeC
Adolescents - http://bit.ly/BEELCIntakeT
Or click the following link for more information:
bee-lab.ca/research/
02/16/2021
In our new paper, we found that ability to discriminate speech sounds is related to phonological awareness, an ability important for reading acquisition. This relationship is particularly dynamic in children exposed to a second language during early childhood.
Phonetic discrimination, phonological awareness, and pre-literacy skills in Spanish–English dual language preschoolers | Journal of Child Language | Cambridge Core Phonetic discrimination, phonological awareness, and pre-literacy skills in Spanish–English dual language preschoolers
02/16/2021
When AAAS Member and 2020 AAAS Fellow Sally Shaywitz, M.D., and her husband, Bennett Shaywitz, M.D., began unraveling the mysteries of dyslexia in the early 1980s, many people still associated dyslexia with diminished intelligence, and thought the condition affected men and boys.
Now, thanks in no small part to the Shaywitzes’ research, it is better understood that dyslexia is universal, affecting 20 percent of people worldwide. “It's important for kids and their parents to know that this has a name, dyslexia, that they can be very smart even if they read slowly, and that they can have a positive future,” Sally Shaywitz says. Read on in this recent Member Spotlight: https://bit.ly/2MuD9iz.