Learning A Second Language In Infancy And/Or Childhood: Benefits Or Costs For Language Development?

Abstract: 5 pages in length. In today's globalized society, there is no social downside for children to acquire another language beyond their mother tongue; to have the ability to speak two languages in the world's multicultural environment serves as a solidifying component for raising a more worldly and accomplished child. From a linguistic standpoint, there are both strengths and weaknesses associated with young child simultaneously learning two languages which bring forth a collection of reasons why there are a combination of benefits as well as costs for the bilingual child; two of the greatest concerns of early bilingualism include code switching and how the process of language acquisition is challenged when more than one is learned at once. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

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Catagory: General

Subcatagory: Communications, Media, Theory, Etc

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