Is multilingualism linked to a higher tolerance of ambiguity?*

By Jean–Marc Dewaele, Li Wei. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012

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Attitudes towards code-switching among adult mono- and multilingual language users (2014, background): “For a more detailed discussion of this instrument, see Dewaele and Wei 2013a. 5.”
The link between Foreign Language Classroom Anxiety, Second Language Tolerance of Ambiguity and Self-rated English proficiency among Chinese learners (2013, background): “50 Dewaele et al., 2008). Dewaele (2010b) found that knowing more languages, and more specifically, knowing more languages typologically related to a particular FL (French) increased participants’ self-perceived communicative competence and lowered their FLA. FLCA has also been linked to perfectioni”
L2 grit: Passion and perseverance for second-language learning (2020, background): “Although several studies have evidenced cognitive benefits of bilingualism (see Bialystok, 2011), non-cognitive benefits of multilingualism remain relatively unexamined (see Dewaele & Van Oudenhoven, 2009; Dewaele & Wei, 2013).”
Attitudes towards foreign accents among adult multilingual language users (2015, methodology): “A full immersion in a new linguistic environment boosts TA (Dewaele and Wei 2013), and will contribute to a realisation that one’s own accent might be viewed by others as an FA.”