Case Study on Being Bilingual in America

Participant in American bilingual case study is my daughter Amy. In July 1998, when she came to the United States from mainland China, I began to observe her reactions to the new environment and how she adapted to the environment. During the 5 months (July to November 1998), I recorded what she did (about 35,000 words in either English or Chinese) on the spot, sometimes as a memory and recorded us. Dialogue between three tapes. Amy was 12 years old when she came to Hawaii.

Abstract: This article explains the broad background of bilingual and bilingual education in the United States. First we introduced the definition of bilingualism and discussed the dichotomy created in bilingual research. During the past 50 years, various terms have emerged: coordination and complex bilingualism, early and late bilingualism, simultaneous bilingualism, addiction and subtraction bilingualism, and elite and fork bilingualism. This distinction helps attract attention to every aspect of bilingualism but the most important lesson the author can learn from research is that some people associate personal characteristics with other features of the social group is. . The authors argue that a single definition of individual bilingualism is not enough to cover all individuals known as bilingual and there are various possibilities. The same can be said about social bilingualism.

Bilingualism is a term that includes many definitions that vary depending on research. According to the survey, different groups of individuals may be considered bilingual. In the most general sense, bilingualism refers to a situation in which children grow up and face two different languages. Bilingualism is closely related to language acquisition - this is a special way for us all to learn our mother tongue like a child. Even if we have to work hard in order to write, we will acquire skills. The words look natural like breathing. Scientists insist that language acquisition is a process from the beginning of our lives to the end of puberty

Not all studies can find the benefits of bilingualism. Earlier this year, a psychologist at Concordia University in Montreal surveyed 168 children aged 1 and 2 bred by bilingual parents. In general, they discovered that young half of the children in the group understood the smaller vocabulary. In the upper half of the sample group, production vocabulary has become less. In other words, some words can be pronounced. Researchers believe that as a result parents are mixing their languages ​​while talking to the children and choosing words that the children think is easier to understand or copy. But Biawistock agrees that this is a short term disadvantage of bilingualism and in most cases the children will catch up.