To learn more about bilingual language development, take a look at these resources:
Administration for Children & Families | Dual Language Learners Toolkit
Harvard Graduate School of Education | Bilingualism as a Life Experience
ParentMap | Benefits of Bilingualism
ZERO TO THREE | Dual Language Learners in Early Care and Education Settings
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- Bilingual
- a person who knows and uses two languages
- Code mixing
- mixing words from different languages in the same sentence or situation
- Cognitive flexibility
- the ability to quickly switch between different concepts or rules
- Dominant language
- is the language a bilingual is most skilled at understanding and/or speaking
- Executive function
- a set of mental abilities that help us plan, focus attention, problem solve, and switch between tasks
- Language transfer
- applying the knowledge from one language to another language
- Monolingual
- a person who knows and uses a single language
- Simultaneous bilingualism
- a person learns two or more languages from birth
- Sequential bilingualism
- a person first learns one language then learns one or more languages later