2. Bilingualism & Children
•Who is bilingual? (types of bilingualism) • Bilingualism & Language Delay • Bilingualism & Language Confusion • Bilingualism & Intelligance • Bilingualism & Cognative Development • Conclusion

3. Who Is Bilingual?
In general terms – person who can speak two languages
Bilingualism  bi = ´two´ lingua = ´language´
We can distinguish:
bilingualism at the personal level,
bilingualism at the social level

4. Personal bilingualism
Coordinate bilingualism
Compound bilingualism
Subordinate bilingualism
Diglossia
Ambilingualism
Bipart-lingualism
Bilingualism at the societal level:

5. Bilingualism & Language Delay
Language delay Vs. The clinical use of the term to refere to significant delays in the development of language.
Worries about significant delays.

6. Bilingualism & Language Delay
The problem of differentation of grammatical system.
Single-system hypothesis by Volterra and Taeschna
E.g. Inflexional morphology

7. Bilingualism & Language Confusion
Parrent’s worries:
code-switching: a sing of language confusions.
Researchers:
code-switching: a sign of mastery

8. Bilingualism & Language Confusion
To avoid confusion:
one-parent, one- languageapproach;
although other approaches also valid.

9. Bilingualism & Intelligence
Is there any positive impact of bilingualism or learner’s intelligence?

10. Bilingualism & Cognitive Development
The Human Mind
A container with limited capacity or
A machine ready to be stimulated by the environment?

11. Bilingualism & Cognitive Development
Bilingualism VS. Monolingualism
Bilingual children:
Understanding of taxonomic relationships developed earlier;
Perform better in most cognitive skills
Bilingual adults:
Learn new words more easily;
Alzheimer’s onset delayed

12. Conclusion...

13. Thank you for your attention!
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