Bilingualism

What is Bilingualism?

• Is when a person have the capacity of speak two languages

• Means to have the hability to communicate in two languages at the same level of performance

• Is the hability to speak two languages

A person could become bilingual because they are raised in a dual-language household or because they learn a second language later in life.

• True

• False

What is Diglossia?

• It refers to the coexistence of two different languages in a society

• Is the situation of coexistence of two related linguistic varieties within the same population or territory

• Is the ability of a person to learn any language

What are the different diciplines that study that phonomena? (Diglossia)

• Pragmatics, Phonetics and Phonology

• Grammar and Phonetics

• Semantics and Syntax

• Sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and neurolinguistics

Receptive Bilingualism Implies that the subject, competent in their first language, shows the ability to listen and read in the second, but not to speak or write it

• True

• False

productive bilingualism refers to assumes a high and similar competence in two languages, as well as the effective use of both in different circumstances.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Refers to the ability of an individual to speak, write, listen and read in two languages.

Can it be said that just speaking the mother tongue and knowing a little vocabulary of a second language makes us bilingual?

Ca rlos understands Spanish but is fluent in Italian. Is Carlos bilingual?

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Being bilingual not only implies understanding it, but also having the same level of proficiency in all skills, as in the mother tongue.

The cultural and social context are part of the process of bilingualism of a person? Why ?

Sara's mother is from Spain and her father is from Italy, so they took it upon themselves to teach her these two languages. Does that make Sara bilingual?

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Sara, having acquired both languages from an early age, will have the same capacity and level of competence in both languages.