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Bilingual Children

Bilingual Children. Do They Really Have an Advantage? Russell Rowley. Bilingual Children. Side One – 2/Multiple languages as a Hindrance to Child Development... Side Two – Raising one’s Child(ren) Bilingual as Beneficial to Their Development... Methodology – Adult Polyglots

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Bilingual Children

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  1. Bilingual Children Do They Really Have an Advantage? Russell Rowley

  2. Bilingual Children • Side One – 2/Multiple languages as a Hindrance to Child Development... • Side Two – Raising one’s Child(ren) Bilingual as Beneficial to Their Development... • Methodology – Adult Polyglots • Analysis – Looking at the Polyglot Data • Conclusion – Yea or Ney • Future Work

  3. Why shouldn’t I raise my child(ren) bilingual? • Students older than 11 and adults are observedly faster learners of L2 than children under the age of 11. (Cook, 133-134) • Children learning more than one 1st language are known to take longer to develope their language and communication skills. • Children abondon languages which are not spoken in their community of peers.

  4. Why might I consider raising my children bilingual? • Youth corrisponds to learning sensitivity and therefore response to “environmental influences.” (Han, 57) • Critical Period Hypothsis – Humans are only capable of language learning between two years and early teens. • “The majority of [L2] students fall by the wayside before they get to a high level.” (Cook, 149)

  5. Raised Bi/Multilingual: -Maria Gaetana Agnesi (5+) -Jose Rizal (10+) -Ziad Youssef Fazah (50+) Raised Monolingual: -Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao (13) -Walter Laquer (11+) MethodologyFaimous Polyglots

  6. Methodology Incomplete Unknown: -Anthony Burgess -Paul Robeson -Cardinal Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti (38 languages, 50+ Dialects)

  7. Future Work • Same Methodology with more data (language speakers and whether they were raised bi/multilingual or not). • Survey determining the ease/difficulty with which people read, write, and speak, then which was/were their mother tongues. • Each Methodology observing data of equal numbers from each side, then compared together.

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