BILINGUALISM AND EDUCATION

Bilingualism and Education



Bilingualism and Education

Introduction

The learning of duel languages help the person to survive in the globalize era, and especially if you are living in the middle east, you are require to learn English and Arabic to develop your communication strong. This has noticed that the Arabic and English both have strong recognition as the international languages. Bilingualism is the ability to use, or the regular use of, two languages with advanced proficiency and nearly equal fluency in each language. Bilingualism is broadly classified into simultaneous bilingualism, in which a person is introduced to two languages concurrently, and sequential bilingualism, in which a person is introduced to a second language after having been introduced to a first language by the nature of the acquisition process. Simultaneous bilingualism generally refers to childhood bilingualism as a result of exposure to two languages in roughly the same degree from birth or acutely early childhood.

There are many definitions of bilingualism, some of them are wrong and others are based on myths. A person does not have to speak two languages with equal fluency to say who is bilingual and is extremely common that can be expressed in both languages with some ease and without being noticed an accent that betrays. Even if you realize one of the two languages is dominant, only feel emotionally comfortable in one of them and only the dominant language may make creative work worthwhile (Brisk, 2006, pp. 119-88). You may be able to write business letters in either language without much difficulty, but will be difficult to literature. May be versed in both languages but only one of them establish the true poetry hatch that is where the mysteries of the soul. In learning a language is not easy to achieve this dimension.

In the field of study of second-language learning, the definition of bilingualism, as in almost all conceptualizations of terms, has not been left to create dichotomies. Among the most popular are the dichotomies that have been given by leading researchers in this field such as: a) coordinated vs. Bilingualism. Compoundb) Early vs. late bilingualismc) Simultaneous vs. Successive bilingualismd) Additive vs. subtractive bilingualisme) People vs. Elitist Bilingualism

The first three refer to individual characteristics while the last two are related to characteristics of social groups. Thus, we see that these distinctions lead to the study of specific aspects of bilingualism. Similarly, the research perspective depends on the nature of the discipline that deals. For example, psycholinguistics focuses their attention mainly to the mental and cognitive properties of bilingual people. Sociolinguists have become more interested in categorizing social groups based on the language settings in relation to dominance, prestige and other sociological and institutional characteristics (Genesee, 2004, pp. 45-99).

However, no definition of bilingualism is sufficiently broad to cover all cases of people we call 'bilingual'. In the definitions that have been given is that can be placed on a continuum from a 'native control of two or more languages' to' minimal possession of communication skills in a second language or foreign language. “Obviously, the first excludes the majority of individuals' bilingual 'and introduces the problem of the definition of' native control.” As most scholars prefer the second field as a starting point from which a variety of bilingual skills can be developed.

Discussion

This frequent dual-language exposure from the early age is established by children's sociolinguistic experiences at school and home, including discourse practices influenced by parental communication patterns and input, and by societal language dominance. Sequential bilingualism refers to the second-language acquisition beginning during late childhood or onward; the category of sequential bilingualism is often further subdivided to distinguish between sequential bilinguals who acquire a foreign language as adults (called late bilingualism) and ...