10 Benefits of Bilingualism


Benefits of Bilingualism can be seen in three aspects: Children, Families and Communication & Society





Benefits for Children

  • Better concentration, analytical skills, and multi-tasking
  • Increasing sense of self-worth and identity
  • valuing their cultural heritage and minority language, as well as developing a greater appreciation of other cultures
  • Better career opportunities later in life
  • The abilities to live abroad and learn other languages more easily later in life
  • Communicate and connect with extended family members (such as grandparents)
  • Assess to art, music, film, literature in both languages
  • Opportunity to become "full" members of their respective communities




Benefits for Families
  • Communication between family members (such as grandparents)
  • Maintenance of heritage culture and language
  • Sense of identity and belonging


Benefits for Wider Community and Society
  • Children can eventually fulfill the linguistic and culture needs of a globalized economy
  • Improved education outcomes
  • A pool of interculturally competent citizens














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07 Type of Bilingual

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Now we going to look on the type of bilingual people As we learn at the beginning that people can become a bilingual person at birth to 4+ years old . That is called Early bilingualism .         Early bilingualism is defined as the acquisition of more than one language in the pre-adolescent phase of life. Children can learn 2 language at the same time, from birth or acquires a first language and then learn second language. Another one is Late bilingualism which refers to bilingualism when the second language is learned after the age of 6 or 7; especially when it is learned in adolescence or adulthood           Type of bilingualism also classifies according to the skills : Balanced bilinguals and dominant bilinguals.  The difference between Balanced bilinguals and dominant bilinguals is  based on the relationship between the fluency & proficiency  of the respective languages which bilinguals master. The third, we can cla
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05 How bilingual speak

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          As we know that family social and education is effected the person when learning a second language to become bilingual. When a person become bilingual, they will think a lot on how to use each language that will appropriate the context. The process will begin at the Code-switching.               “ Code-switching is using between two languages or more than two languages in different situations or in the same sentence” For example, Helen is a woman who can speak in both Thai and Korean. If she is in Thailand, she will choose to speak Thai to communicate with others. For more understanding :   https://owlcation.com/humanities/Code-Switching-Definition-Types-and-Examples-of-Code-Switching After that will go to the Diglossia stage Diglossia has 2 parts              First, used to classify communication situations in societies between Formal and Informal languages in the same language.              Second, use between 2 languages, their lang
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08 Bilingual education

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Bilingual education Bilingual education is bilingualism at the school level. It is not to be confused with bilingual child-raising. Bilingual education should involve teaching in two or more languages in a school, that is, more than one language as the medium of instruction for students to learn regular school subjects.                There are a lot of successful model for bilingual education .          1.      IMMERSION          2.     MAINTENANCE / HERITAGE LANGUAGE          3.     TWO-WAY / DUAL LANGUAGE          4.     MAINSTREAM BILINGUAL In immersion bilingual education the regular curriculum is taught to some extent in the target language, which can also be called Content-Based Foreign Language Teaching. If a program is called immersion, it may need to be confirmed that the curriculum meets the established criteria which is use L1 and L2 at the same time (L1 50% and L2 50%) It is a strict standard compared to most foreign language programs, bu
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