Bilingual Children

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Bilingual Children

• Do They Really Have an Advantage?
• Russell Rowley

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Bilingual Children

• Side One 2/Multiple languages as a Hindrance to
  Child Development...
• Side Two Raising ones Child(ren) Bilingual as
  Beneficial to Their Development...
• Methodology Adult Polyglots
• Analysis Looking at the Polyglot Data
• Conclusion Yea or Ney
• Future Work

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Why shouldnt I raise my child(ren) bilingual?

• Students older than 11 and adults are observedly
  faster learners of L2 than children under the age
  of 11. (Cook, 133-134)
• Children learning more than one 1st language are
  known to take longer to develope their language
  and communication skills.
• Children abondon languages which are not spoken
  in their community of peers.

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Why might I consider raising my children
bilingual?

• Youth corrisponds to learning sensitivity and
  therefore response to environmental influences.
  (Han, 57)
• Critical Period Hypothsis Humans are only
  capable of language learning between two years
  and early teens.
• The majority of L2 students fall by the
  wayside before they get to a high level. (Cook,
  149)

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MethodologyFaimous Polyglots

• Raised Bi/Multilingual
• -Maria Gaetana Agnesi (5)
• -Jose Rizal (10)
• -Ziad Youssef Fazah (50)

• Raised Monolingual
• -Pamulaparthi Venkata Narasimha Rao (13)
• -Walter Laquer (11)

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Methodology Incomplete

• Unknown
• -Anthony Burgess
• -Paul Robeson
• -Cardinal Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti (38
  languages, 50 Dialects)

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Future Work

• Same Methodology with more data (language
  speakers and whether they were raised
  bi/multilingual or not).
• Survey determining the ease/difficulty with which
  people read, write, and speak, then which
  was/were their mother tongues.
• Each Methodology observing data of equal numbers
  from each side, then compared together.