12.3 - How home language affects education and development

How does the strength of the home language impact a child's learning of English?

• It has no impact on learning English.

• It can hinder their ability to learn English.

• It can facilitate their learning of English if they have a strong base in their home language.

• It only affects their pronunciation in English.

Why are parents of young children encouraged to use their home language?

• To improve their cognitive abilities unrelated to language.

• To make it easier for children to learn English later.

• To prevent children from learning English.

• To preserve family history, culture, and traditions.

What role does language play in self-concept?

• It is crucial as it links with a family’s history, culture, and traditions.

• It only affects academic self-concept.

• It has no significant role.

• It influences only their social skills.

What can be a consequence of not mastering the home language?

• Improved academic performance in English.

• Loss of opportunities to make relationships and understand family culture.

• Enhanced ability to learn new languages.

• No impact on personal development.

How might not mastering English affect a child's social interactions?

• It will improve their confidence in social settings.

• It may lead to better social interactions within their community.

• It has no effect on social interactions.

• It may make it harder to socialize outside of the home.

Why is maintaining the home language important for children with family abroad?

• It is not important as long as they can speak English.

• To maintain relationships and connect with their family’s history and traditions.

• It helps in learning English faster.

• To enhance their academic performance in all subjects.

How does learning concepts in one language affect a child's ability to express them in another language?

• It makes it impossible to express those concepts in another language.

• It improves their ability to translate concepts between languages.

• They are likely to express concepts and vocabulary better in the language they learned them in.

• It has no effect on their ability to express concepts in another language.

Why might bilingual adults do calculations in the language they were taught?

• They are not truly bilingual.

• Due to a lack of proficiency in other languages.

• Because it's easier to remember numbers in their first language.

• It's a habit formed from early education.

How does mastering the home language and English benefit learning new languages?

• It has no impact on learning new languages.

• It only helps with learning similar languages.

• Their brains have developed to handle using more than one code, making it easier.

• It makes learning new languages more challenging.