Bilingual

UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN

FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

BACHELOR OF ARTS (HONS) ENGLISH EDUCATION

ACADEMIC YEAR: 201501

UALL 2004 PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

Topic 4: Briefly describe the varieties of bilingualism. Compare two kinds of bilingualism highlighting the similarities, differences and the process involved : Early Bilingualism vs Late Bilingualism.

Student’s Detail

Name | ID. Number |

Chu Pui Ling | 1205732 |

Leong Zi Xin | 1202601 |

Lim Jessie | 1202511 |

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Voon Xin Jie | 1201936 |

Course details

Year/Semester : Year 2 Sem 3

Tutorial Group : Tutorial 1

Lecturer’s Name : Mr.Renu a/l Kailsan

Tutor’s Name : Ms.Bharathi a/p Mutty

Due Date : Week 10, 17th March 2015 (Wednesday)

Content

Bil. | Titles | Pages |

1 | Introduction | |

2 | Compare and Contrast Early Bilinguals and Late Bilinguals | |

3 | Argumentations of Strenghts and Weaknesses of Early and Late Bilingualism | |

4 | Argumentation 1 | |

5 | Argumentation 2 | |

6 | Argumentation 3 | |

7 | Argumentation 4 | |

8 | Conclusion | |

9 | Reference | |

10 | Appendices | |

Introduction

What is bilingual? The term of “bilinguals” refers to the people who can use two languages selectively and effectively in their daily life. The measure of bilingual abilities includes several dimensions such as the degree of proficiency, accuracy, context of acquisition and learning, age of appropriation, degree of motivation, context use and structural distance between two languages with each of these dimensions having several variables (Miaomei. L et al., 2014).

Early bilinguals refer to someone who acquires in two languages at the same time from infancy whereas late bilinguals refer to someone who acquires or learns a second language after the age of seven years (Paradis, 2003). In short, either in early or late bilinguals they do have their own ways and rules in order to acquire a...