This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of language recovery in chronic aphasia patients who were Sundanese-Indonesian bilinguals and Indonesian monolinguals. The study used an experimental approach in which eight chronic aphasia patients (four bilinguals and four monolinguals) were selected by setting inclusion and exclusion criteria. The results showed that bilingual speakers had higher Indonesian ability in auditory processing such as pointing, following simple commands, verbal auditory discrimination, and syntactic comprehension, as well as significant differences in mean scores between Indonesian and Sundanese on verbal auditory discrimination and syntactic comprehension subtests, but not significant on pointing and simple command subtests. The results of this study provide new insights into the recovery of language competence in bilingual and monolingual adults with chronic aphasia and demonstrate the importance of considering the experience of bilingualism in the language competence recovery of aphasia patients by selecting appropriate therapeutic strategies for bilingual aphasia patients.
Lukman et al. (2026) studied this question.