As mentioned earlier, research that has focused on bilinguals has particularly studied the metalinguistic awareness of bilingual children (Bialystok, Craik et al., 2014). Early research suggested a relationship favoring bilinguals in terms of increased metalinguistic awareness (see Bialystok, Craik et al., 2014 for a review). It appeared that bilingual children develop a more analytical orientation to language through organizing their two language systems. To illustrate, in research that directly examines bilingualism and metalinguistic awareness, Bialystok and colleagues (Bialystok, 2001a, 2001c; Bialystok,