Language Ac. Unit 5

In countries where two languages are full officially recognized like in Canada, Belgium and Finland for example, it means that people there are bilingual

• No

• Yes

What does individual bilingualism involve?

• the ability of a person to acquire and use a second language

• the ability of a child to listen and speak a second language

• the ability of a person to learn a second and third language

When a child develops two unique language systems and be able to handle each of them effortlessly if two parents from diverse linguistic origins solely communicate to him or her in his or her mother tongue, is considered…

• Coordinate bilingualism

• Compound bilingualism

• Subordinate or late bilingualism

When bilingual parents converse with their children in both languages without distinction. The youngster will be able to speak both languages fluently, but they will never be able to fully understand all of their nuances, is considered

• Compound bilingualism

• Coordinate bilingualism

• Subordinate or late bilingualism

It is formed after the critical time and can be learned through formal classroom studies or immersion in a community that speaks the target language. Both situations involve memory.

• Subordinate or late bilingualism

• Compound bilingualism

• Coordinate bilingualism

A situation where individuals of a dominant group acquire the language of a lower group without risk to their L1 proficiency or ethnic identity, is considered as…

• Additive bilingualism

• Subtractive bilingualism

• Coordinate bilingualism.

Is the African continent a model of the way in which societies can be bilingual, with both English and local languages being used?

• Yes

• No

“the Think Tank works…

• in pair ways of thinking even if the two languages do not merge and remain separate.

• in a unitary way of thinking even if the two languages do not merge and remain separate.

• n a unitary way of thinking even if one language does not merge and remain separate.

 The threshold theory…

• depicts the relationship between cognition and capability in bilingualism

• 2. describes the relationship between cognition and proficiency in pluralism

• describes the difference between cognition and proficiency in bilingualism

Later at around 4-5 months of age appears…

• The ability to discriminate two similar languages

• The ability to be bilingual

• The ability to understand many languages.