Introduction
In recent years there has been an increase in research investigating monolingual and bilingual individuals’ cognitive development. In order to research this area more accurately scientist examine language acquisition (how it all begins) in monolingual and bilingual children. This allows them to get an overall better understanding into brain development but also to address the cognitive advantages and disadvantages of being bilingual and monolingual.
Define monolingual and bilingual in a more detailed way (more than what you have below)
It has become clearer, the advantage of being and bilingual in the last decade. It reflects the increased interest in minority language and cultures. Central issue has become for bilingual children, therefore the colourful diversity of human existence is expressed in human languages. A child becomes bilingual by learning two languages at the …show more content…
The only disadvantage of speaking two languages as mentioned above is that young children are late to start speaking of the peruse that, they are learning two languages at the same time, so they have a reason for speaking late. Although the other disadvantage is that the child might get the two languages mixed up while they are talking. . (Can you support this with a journal article???))
Conclusion
To conclude, it seems that the pros are more than the cons. Most of the studies show that there are more advantages to be a bilingual child. It is the parent’s decision or from the individual circumstances that a child can become bilingual.
It is in the individual’s interest to be bilingual as they are able to communicate with more people rather than those that are monolingual. On the other hand, you could be bilingual but the languages you know may not be the language that is required to be able to communicate.
In recent years there has been an increase in research investigating monolingual and bilingual individuals’ cognitive development. In order to research this area more accurately scientist examine language acquisition (how it all begins) in monolingual and bilingual children. This allows them to get an overall better understanding into brain development but also to address the cognitive advantages and disadvantages of being bilingual and monolingual.
Define monolingual and bilingual in a more detailed way (more than what you have below)
It has become clearer, the advantage of being and bilingual in the last decade. It reflects the increased interest in minority language and cultures. Central issue has become for bilingual children, therefore the colourful diversity of human existence is expressed in human languages. A child becomes bilingual by learning two languages at the …show more content…
The only disadvantage of speaking two languages as mentioned above is that young children are late to start speaking of the peruse that, they are learning two languages at the same time, so they have a reason for speaking late. Although the other disadvantage is that the child might get the two languages mixed up while they are talking. . (Can you support this with a journal article???))
Conclusion
To conclude, it seems that the pros are more than the cons. Most of the studies show that there are more advantages to be a bilingual child. It is the parent’s decision or from the individual circumstances that a child can become bilingual.
It is in the individual’s interest to be bilingual as they are able to communicate with more people rather than those that are monolingual. On the other hand, you could be bilingual but the languages you know may not be the language that is required to be able to communicate.