Language Development of Bilingual Children
Abstract
There is a question that parents, teachers and the specialists wonder about. If we want a child to be bilingual, what must we do to achieve this? Must we talk the two languages at the same time or must we teach each language one at a time? To solve this issue we looked at different theories. The research carried on bilingual children brings to light very new points of view. The result of these researches indicates that talking two languages simultaneously does not affect the intelligence of the child negatively as was believed previously. Learning two or three languages does not effect the language development of the child either. Does keeping the two languages separate when the child is learning two languages simultaneously seem to be the best method that makes learning more effective? This paper tries to answer that question.
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