Question: A Critical Review of Lindholm, K. J. & Padilla, A. M. (1977). Language Mixing in Bilingual Children. Journal Child Laguage 5 327-335.

Understanding multilingual today is important not only for communication in multicultural society like Australia but also for personal career. Therefore, children are born as bilingual and language learners. According to Kessler (1997), bilingualism is defined as "alternate usage in the same individual or more languages" (p. 17). Infants who were born and learned both languages ​​at the same time seem to mix languages ​​at word level, discourse level, and small session level.

Mixed languages ​​- Very young bilingual children often mix their own languages. This is perfectly normal and does not imply language confusion. It does not indicate that the "main" language is disadvantageous. In fact, adult bilinguals often mix languages ​​and use the words that are most appropriate for the current situation and audience communication needs. Early mixed language children in the process of becoming bilingual are using the simplest words for him or her, but they are not related to the limits of the audience. Assuming parents and teachers divide their languages, children will learn to separate languages ​​and change their voices according to the needs and circumstances of each person's communication.

The evaluation of the latest and comprehensive bilingual education program is a review of the literature by KA Baker and AA de Kanter, and (1) through special courses, the performance of minority children can be improved. Bilingual education program must take measures to improve the quality of evaluation; (3) It is irrational to completely rely on this guidance method because the case of the effect of transitional bilingual education is very weak . Teach non-linguistic subjects so that children can make sufficient progress at school; (5) Immersion courses show promising results and more care should be taken in curriculum development

We examined the influence of bilingualism on children's language development. The theory is that bilingual children can learn the second language after mastering the first language. One of the reasons behind this is that the child is developing a nonverbal concept of a word (since the child already uses it in the primary language) and therefore can only construct verbal concepts . Balanced bilinguals have been shown to be more flexible in their perception and language. However