The Effects of Bilingualism on Language 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, unbalanced bilinguals often show different results.

Bilingualism has no substantial negative impact on development, but there are many variables that influence the outcome of bilingual development, such as the context to learn languages, the attitudes of parents to bilingualism, and language status. Community social and cultural background and children's growth Universal respect and encouragement for bilingual children's learning languages ​​plays an important role in the development of children and promotes positive outcomes of children .

Emphasize the impact on early second language / bilingual, early social cognition and social emotional development

"Bilingual" is to frequently use two languages, but bilingual is people who use two languages. More specifically, bilingualism is an individual ability to understand and generate two (natural) languages, including linguistic variants of dialects. The balance of the two languages ​​(balanced bilingualism) is not as good as the major position of the language (bilingual imbalance). The incomplete capability of equalization in both languages ​​is marked semi linguistically. These two languages ​​can be obtained together from early childhood (initial bilingual), or can be learned sequentially (late bilingual or first language, L1, mastery and second language, L2, learning). The first language does not always rule the language throughout its lifecycle. When a child has to enter a second language environment without further development and use of his or her first language, the first language of childhood often is lost

First language acquisition means the development of children's languages ​​in the natural environment. Learning the first language is bilingual or monolingual. Learning the first language of bilingual means that a child born can have two languages ​​at the same time like a child with parents of different nationalities (Houwer, 2009). In contract, a single language refers to the development of a single language. However, in some studies, the development of first language acquisition has been recorded up to that stage.