the study of relationship between bilingualism and private speech with english learning in elementary school students

Purpose: this study investigated the relationship between gender and bilingualism with english learning among 7-11 years old students. methodology: 261 students (124 girls and 157 boys) were selected through multi-stage sampling method from elementary school. employing check list the level of english scores was obtained .the children's private speech obtained from listening to them when they were solving a puzzle in group. findings: an independent t test showed that there was no significant relationship between bilingualism and english scores (p<05/0). furthermore an anova test indicated that there was a significant relationship between the type of private speech and english scores (p<0/01). a sheffe post hoc showed that the solving private speech had the significant relationship with high performance in english scores among four types of private speech: solving speech, task relevant speech, non- facilitative coping/ reinforcing speech and task- irrelevant speech. discussion: considering the nature of the solving private speech indicates that this kind of private speech had a more meta-cognitive nature which leads to better cognitive function such as learning english.