Bilingual working memory span is affected by language skill

By E. Service, Marjut Simola, Oili Metsänheimo, Sini Maury. 2002

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Foreign Language Proficiency and Working Memory Capacity (2006, background): “So far, the results on the reading-span task, which is a complex working-memory task, are mixed (Harrington & Sawyer, 1992; Omaki, 2005; Service et al., 2002).”
Proficiency and working memory based explanations for nonnative speakers’ sensitivity to agreement in sentence processing (2012, background): “The results of this study also showed that L2 learners had lower reading-span scores in French than native French speakers, consistent with the findings of previous studies (e.g., Harrington & Sawyer, 1992; Osaka & Osaka, 1992; Service et al., 2002; Van den Noort et al., 2006).”
Effect of language proficiency and degree of formal training in simultaneous interpreting on working memory and interpreting performance: Evidence from Mandarin–English speakers (2012, result): “Contrary to our expectation based on previous studies (Chincotta & Underwood, 1998; Service et al., 2002) we did not find that advanced proficiency L2 users showed more equivalent working memory spans across their two languages relative to less advanced L2”
Basic skills in a complex task: A graphical model relating memory and lexical retrieval to simultaneous interpreting (2003, unknown): “Furthermore, this pattern matches the advanced group in the Service et al. (2002) data, even though our participants were psychology students, like their less advanced group.”