Exam 8: Childhood Bilingualism

Bialystok (1991) found that children who are bilingual have an advantage over monolingual children in having awareness about how language works. This is called:

Generally, research on bilingualism focuses on:

Recent research on bilingualism and cognitive functioning indicates that children who are bilingual have:

Bilingual programs reviewed by Cummins and Corson (1997) were reviewed according to:

Studies on how bilingual babies make phonemic distinctions indicate that:

The effect of ______________ on language learning is more pronounced when children are exposed to the second language in a natural manner.

Discuss the effect on children's language and cognitive development of growing up in a bilingual family or community.

Two topics in the study of the bilingual brain are:

More recent case studies of bilingualism in children demonstrate that children:

Three major studies that compared grammatical development in bilinguals to monolinguals indicated that:

Describe what language differentiation is and how it occurs in early childhood stages.

Research regarding learning a second language indicates that:

When children acquire two languages at birth, their bilingualism is:

The study of differences in acquiring grammatical structures indicates that bilingual children acquire use of that-clause complements:

Bilingual children acquire lexical knowledge in each language:

The fusion hypothesis states that:

Describe social, cultural, political and economic issues that impact bilingual language development programs.

Early studies on bilingual development were:

Individuals interested in bilingualism and its effect on children include:

Describe the course and process of childhood second language acquisition. Include discussion of the number of influences that affect each.