Posts Tagged learning
Stop Telling Parents of Bilingual Children to Use One Language
Posted by Elizabeth D. Peña in bilingual, bilingualism, child bilingualism, child language impairment on September 18, 2018
I keep hearing these stories and it’s infuriating! There’s no evidence that bilingualism is confusing and no evidence that bilingualism makes developmental language disorder worse so stop it! Read the rest of this entry »
Learning Words in Two Languages
Posted by Elizabeth D. Peña in child bilingualism, ESL, vocabulary on December 2, 2012
It’s interesting to understand bilingual language acquisition in the context of existing theories. This helps to better understand and interpret findings, and how well findings fit (or don’t) a theory helps to refine it. When there is an accumulation of findings that fit well, then we can better predict what might be going on even if there is little data.
On Not Being Bilingual
Posted by Elizabeth D. Peña in adult bilingualism, child bilingualism, in the news on August 21, 2010
Read this story this morning, which I thought was interesting. A high school girl writes about not being bilingual in Chinese and English. She indicates that she used to be fluent, but has lost her home language–Chinese.
2 Languages 2 Worlds 