CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Bilinguals who learn two languages from birth are referred to as simultaneous bilinguals, and those who learn a first language followed by a second language-whether as toddlers or as adults-are referred to as sequential bilinguals.

Detailed explanation-2: -Simultaneous bilinguals are children who are exposed to more than one language prior to age three. They develop two or more languages equally, or nearly equally, through exposure and frequent opportunities to use each language.

Detailed explanation-3: -Multilingualism stimulates brain development and helps children learn because they can think about their ideas in two (or more) languages. Speaking more than one language comes naturally to babies, whose brains are wired for all language.

Detailed explanation-4: -Language acquisition in simultaneous bilinguals generally takes two common forms of exposure to a second language: A one-person–one-language pattern, where each parent communicates in only one of the two languages to the child or. both parents speak both languages to the child.

Detailed explanation-5: -sometimes in the literature. For example, some authors have defined multilingualism as “the. acquisition and use of two or more languages” (Aronin & Singleton 2008: 2; emphasis added). By. the same token, the term second language is sometimes viewed as a “cover term for any language.