Bilingual Children's Second Language Acquisition
This paper was written for the course E507 Bilingualism in TESOL. This course made me aware of language policy and linguistic human rights that I have not paid much attention to. The world is becoming more globalized and the number of people who are exposed to more than two languages is increasing. One of my interests was second language acquisition (SLA) by bilingual children. This paper researched early bilingual children in terms of SLA, reviewing how they discriminate
and develop two different languages. The process of SLA by bilinguals was compared with monolinguals.
I found out that the benefits of bilinguals are shown in the case of balanced bilinguals. Considering the increasing number of bilingual people in the globalized world and the advantages of balanced bilinguals, more attention needs to be paid to providing a balanced bilingual environment to promote balanced language development.
This paper was written for the course E507 Bilingualism in TESOL. This course made me aware of language policy and linguistic human rights that I have not paid much attention to. The world is becoming more globalized and the number of people who are exposed to more than two languages is increasing. One of my interests was second language acquisition (SLA) by bilingual children. This paper researched early bilingual children in terms of SLA, reviewing how they discriminate
and develop two different languages. The process of SLA by bilinguals was compared with monolinguals.
I found out that the benefits of bilinguals are shown in the case of balanced bilinguals. Considering the increasing number of bilingual people in the globalized world and the advantages of balanced bilinguals, more attention needs to be paid to providing a balanced bilingual environment to promote balanced language development.
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