Abstract This essay deliberates the benefits of being bilingual. The information has been analyzed from resources dating from September 2010 through 2012. The idea put forth in this essay is to prove that the brain of a bilingual person is agile and nimble. It argues a bilingual signs in babies having the ability to distinguish between two languages as young as 4 months old. It also presents how infants show a strong preference for the language their mother spoke during pregnancy. It confirms that
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Nowadays the theme of multilingualism is widely discussed because of the progresses that make its presence felt in various domains of cultural‚ social or scientifically(especially technological). People have started to travel a lot from a corner of the world to another‚ because they have the possibility of free movement ‚ so they can interact with different nationalities only through a common language which is usually different from their language .Also they can establish relationships of all kinds
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE This chapter deals with some previous related studies on bilingual education and pertinent ideas including definition‚ aims‚ history‚ and types of bilingual education. A. Previous Related Studies A research conducted by Rubio (2002) showed that the teachers who had participated from the training program used more the mother tongue (Mayan language) as language of instruction‚ whereas the regular teachers (non certified bilingual teachers) tend to use target
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’ [...] themixing of words‚ phrases and sentences from two distinct grammatical (sub) systems across sentence boundaries within the same speech event’ (Bokamba‚ 1989). Code-switching is then one phenomenon that results from bilingualism and multilingualism. Sociolinguists have always beeninterested in studying the phenomenon and the reasons that stand behind it. There are manyfactors that stand behind code-switching‚ like solidarity‚ social status‚ topic‚ affection‚ and persuasion.The main body
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Introduction Due to high mobility‚ rapid change‚ economic growth‚ and other factors‚ increasing deculturation has become a current global issue that has begun to affect education (Cornish‚ 2005). Deculturation usually occurs when a person moves to a country where people speak a language and have a culture they do not understand or are familiar with. Cornish (2005) also states that today individuals do not have to move to another country to experience deculturation‚ they are able to experience
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The English Language And Its Impact On Identities Of Multilingual Malaysian Undergraduates By Lee‚ Su Kim‚ Lee‚ King Siong‚ Wong‚ Fook Fei and Azizah Ya’acob Lee Su Kim is an associate Professor at the School of Language Studies and Linguistics‚ UKM. Lee King Siong‚ a senior lecturer with the School of Language Studies and Linguistics‚ Wong Fook Fei is a senior lecturer at the School of Language Studies and Linguistics‚ Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities‚ Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
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1. INTRODUCTION As learning an additional language is regarded as being competitive and advantageous‚ there are more and more bilinguals and multilinguals in many places worldwide‚ and Hong Kong is one of these places. With a majority of the population being able to master a number of languages‚ code-switching‚ which is the alternate use of (more than) two languages by a bilingual (or multilingual) within a discourse‚ is undoubtedly a common and frequently occurring linguistic phenomenon in
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NTNU | A comparison of the bilingual and the multicompetent | HOME EXAM – ENG2153 | | Flittig Student | Spring 2013 | Exercise 5 | A comparison of the bilingual and the multicompetent Previously‚ monolingualism was seen as the norm and the natural case of language development and consequently‚ bilingualism was devaluated (Meisel‚ 2004: 91). Today‚ however‚ this belief has changed and researchers point to the many advantages of bilingualism. Still‚ not all are provided with the
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Karen‚ K. Y. C. (2003). Codeswitching for a Purpose: Focus on Preschool Malaysian Children Malik‚ L. (1994). Sociolinguistics: A Study of Codeswitching. New Delhi: Anmol. Merrit‚ M.‚ Cleghorn‚ A.‚ Abagi‚ J‚ and Bunyi‚ G (1992). Sociolising Multilingualism: Determinants of Codeswitching in Kenyan Primary
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John J. (1971). Language in Social Groups. Stanford University Press‚ Stanford‚ California. Maaw‚ Joan (1971) ”Socio-Linguistics problems and potentialities of Education through a foreign language” in Language use and Social Change: Problems of Multilingualism with special reference to Eastern Africa‚ W.E Whiteley (ed.)‚ Oxford University Press‚ 1971. ISSN 2222-1735 (Paper) ISSN 2222-288X (Online) Vol 2‚ No 5‚ 2011 www.iiste.org Lambert‚ W.E (1977) “Effects of Bilinbualism on the individual” in Bilingualism:
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