CLD 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Simultaneous Bilingualism, Bilingual Education, Autism Spectrum

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Early Childhood Studies
• Course: CLD 241
• Professor: Cherry Chan

Document Summary

Does bilingualism make kids smarter: bilingual education can over-ride economic status, can improve brain structure. 6,9122 different languages are spoken in the world. 5 billion people speak 30 of these languages. 300 different languages are spoken in the us roughly 130 countries out of 195 speak 2 or more languages. About 20% of people in canada have a minority language as their mother tongue. In addition, over 27% of the population of ontario speak a non-official language, other than english or french as their mother tongue. The city of toronto, york region, and peel region are the most linguistically diverse areas in the gta. Toronto is a mosaic of languages with almost half of is population (45%) having a mother tongue other than english or french. Almost a third of its population (28%) regularly speaks a language other than. English or french at home, which holds true for almost 19% in the rest of the.