{"product_id":"bilingualism-in-childhood-von-andrea-sander","title":"Bilingualism in Childhood","description":"\u003cp\u003eProject Report from the year 2009 in the subject Speech Science \/ Linguistics, grade: 1, Syddansk Universitet (Syddansk Universitet, Sønderborg), language: English, abstract: A lot of people in the world are bilingual. People in Africa and Asia often speak their\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecommunity language and additionally an official language like English or French. It is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enot a big surprise when calling in mind that according to Prof. Dr. Martin Haspelmath\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof the Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig there are about\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6500-7000 languages in the world and according to www.welt-in-zahlen.de 193\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecountries. That makes an average of 35 languages per country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite the fact that bilingualism is widespread, there are a lot of negative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eopinions in the mind of people. People say for example ¿Your kid is going to get all\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethese languages mixed up.¿, ¿when will she (or he) use that (language)¿ (both cf.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBosemark, 2006b, my italics) or that bilingual children are overstrained and that they\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estart later to talk than their monolingual peers (cf. Leist-Villis, 2008).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin this research-paper I will deal with bilingualism in childhood. More\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprecisely I will answer the research question ¿What are the reasons for parents to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eraise their child bilingually¿. First I will define the term bilingualism. For that I quote a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efew definitions of bilingualism from experts and afterwards I will define the one I will\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ework with. Afterwards I will introduce some successful methods applied by parents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand I will point out the advantages and disadvantages of the methods I found in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eliterature. I will continue explaining the research I have done on the topic followed by\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe analysis of my data. Concluding I will answer the research question and give a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eprospective view on possible future research.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBilingualism is a huge topic and to look on it more deeply I decided to consider\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efamilies who raised their children English-German or German-English. To get in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econtact with families bringing up their children in that way, I wrote articles in internet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecommunities and designed a questionnaire that I sent to several families raising their\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003echild\/ren bilingually who answered my requests. In addition to the internet and my\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003equestionnaire I considered books that deal with the topic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783640320318\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat are the reasons for parents to raise their child bilingual?\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783640320318","offer_id":59018224697669,"sku":"9783640320318","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/73461_50e141b7-7cff-45ff-9064-e13b7977fac9.jpg?v=1787892042","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/bilingualism-in-childhood-von-andrea-sander","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}