Bilingualism. The simplest definition of bilingualism is the ability of a person to communicate with in languages..
Frequently bilingualism is the outcome of raising a child in a bilingual family or society. The result of long term exposure to more languages or the outcome of bilingual education. Examples of bilingual countries : Canada and Belgium Montreal..
Factors that effect bilingualism development. Timing : when exposure to two languages Aptitude : a language talent Motivation : positive and negative Strategy : how both language are learnt Opportunity and support : does a person has enough opportunities. Linguistic and historic relationship between languages : its easy to become bilingual if your family speaks two languages.
Types of Bilingualism. Simultaneous: which occurs when two languages are acquired from birth. Sequential: when one language is acquired following another. True “pure”: when a person is professional in both languages like a native Ambilingualism : a bilingual demonstrate equal ability in both languages. Equilingualism : a bilingual has roughly equivalent ability in both languages Receptive passive bilingualism: ability to understand the second language but unable to produce it. Productive active bilingualism: ability to understand and produce second language utterances ; natural setting Academic secondary bilingualism: acquiring second language through formal teaching at school..
Bilingual education. both formal and informal is provided in at least two languages in reality. It is a term enveloping any system of education In which a curriculum ispresented to learners at least with two languages.
-Additive bilingualism: maintain high quality communicative skills. -Subtractive bilingualism : while learning another languages he forgets the other one. -Balanced bilingualism: neither a language is dominant..