PSYCH 3UU3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Second-Language Acquisition, Code-Switching, Input Hypothesis
4 Feb 2014
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3 types: l2 is learned relative to l1, l1 and l2 are learned simultaneously, l1 learned first but l2 learned early early sequential (largest group worldwide*, late sequential l2 learned in adolescence onwards. Production bilinguals: easy to produce, hard to understand others. Receptive bilinguals: easy to understand, hard to produce. Language mixing: when words combine in different languages, such as an english suffix added to a german root, or english words put into a french syntactic structure or responding to questions in one language with answers in another. Code switching: the name given to the tendency of bilinguals when speaking to other bilinguals to switch from one language to another often to more appropriate words or phrases. Although no solid evidence has favoured bilingualism hurting comprehension of both languages. Inferences have been made where monolinguistic-like attainment in each of a bilingual"s two language is probably a myth .
