How do bilingual/multilingual children develop language in the first years of life? And when should parents be concerned and when should they simply trust the process? Research shows that bilingual/multilingual language development follows the same fundamental development path as monolingual development, while also being shaped by the child’s linguistic environment, quality and quantity of […]
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Signs of Communication Disorders
How can we find out if our child has a communication disorder?
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Language acquisition versus language learning
What is the difference between language acquisition and language learning. Some people use the term of language acquisition for all the phases that lead to language fluency, including learning to read and write. Others use the term of language learning even for babies and very young, pre-school children. – But there is a […]
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Code-switching, what to do, when should I worry?
This is one of the questions I get asked frequently: When should I worry when my children do code-switching? First of all, the term code-switching is widely used as an umbrella term for using different languages in the same sentence, alternating them to some extent. It is not to be confused with borrowing, where a […]
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Myths about Bilingualism/Multilingualism
This is a short (!) overview of some common myths about bilingualism/multilingualism – I will be updating this list in May/June 2024, so, if you came across any myths you want me to include, please let me know in the comments. They are all assumptions based on old theories about bilingualism and bilinguals (and multilingualism), […]
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