Thursday 13 November 2008

Language Development in Bilingual Children

An Introduction to Bilingualism: principles and processes edited by Jeanette Altarriba and Roberto R. Heredia
Bilingual Research Methods by Victoria Marian

Positive effects
-Metacognitive skills are increased and can be thought differently and flexibly.
-Comprehension can be better.
Negative effects
-Lexical acquisition is slow.
-The number of vocabulary is smaller than monolingual children, though the technique of assessment is often against bilingual children because they are assessed in only one of their two languages.

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