No learning overnight for children A popular belief is to think that children who are exposed to another language at late stage of bilingual development or after the age of…
A distinctive behaviour of bilingual speakers is Bilingual Code Mixing (BCM), which usually takes place when two languages are mixed in the same or in two different utterances in the…
Besides the importance given to the relationship between language and cognition Researchers have showed a great deal of interest in the nature of language representation in the child’s mind with…
Dual language development in early childhood Introduction That human beings possess the cognitive capacity to learn one language without experiencing any real burden is widely accepted as fact among people.…
The research methods used The advances made in early childhood bilingual research lay in the research methods employed which vary considerably from the ones used at early stages. Indeed, most…
The phonetic processing in infants Recently Petitto et al (2011) carried out a neuroimaging experiment to examine the phonetic processing in bilingual and monolingual babies. She divided the babies in…
The complicated link between language and cognition One of the main issues in understanding dual language development in both simultaneous bilinguals and sequential learners is undoubtedly the complicated link between…
Why individuals attain a different level of fluency when learning a foreign language? I bet many of you have wondered why most adults retain a native like accent when speaking…
Is chatting in a foreign language the same of speaking face to face? There are a number of studies that empirically demonstrate that the CMC synchronous chatting modality provides the…
Overcoming foreign language anxiety Many of you have certainly experienced discomfort when speaking a foreign language which was not acquired in early childhood. You might have thought it was related…
Do Children Really Learn Languages Faster than Adults? According to Chomsky (1997, p. 167) “The theory of a particular language is in its grammar, the theory of languages and the…
What is the critical period for language development? Researchers generally agree children are better language learners than adults, read below to find out why. Not surprisingly, children are commonly believed…