CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Most bilingual individuals have a “dominant”, or stronger language, and a “non-dominant”, or weaker language (Genesee et al., 1995). In some bilingual families, family members share the same dominant language, while in others, family members have different dominant languages.

Detailed explanation-2: -Balanced bilinguals are people who have equal proficiency in both their first language (L1) and L2. However, balanced bilinguals are not common, as people rarely use two languages in the same situation.

Detailed explanation-3: -8) When bilinguals talk, do they mentally translate from L1 to L2? Translating from L1 to L2 is mainly found in the early stages of second language acquisition. When people become bilingual, i.e. use two or more languages in everyday life, they no longer translate or only do so on rare occasions.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bilingual people show increased activation in the brain region associated with cognitive skills like attention and inhibition. For example, bilinguals are proven to be better than monolinguals in encoding the fundamental frequency of sounds in the presence of background noise.