03 Milestone of Bilingualism


- Learning language might start when you are a baby. -

: Milestone of Bilingualism :


It can separate into 6 stages


   1.   The Cooing stage 

Birth  -  2  months

“Make sounds to acknowledge their basic needs to survive”




   2.   The Babbling stage 

2 - 6 months


 “Make sounds with rhythms and punctuations  but still unidentifiable”





   3.   The one-words stage 

7 - 12  months


“Make a few sounds that are more understandable and almost similar to a word”


   4.   Telegraphic stage 

1 - 2 years

“Blend in words from different languages such as Thankci, understand what those words mean”
         Children will combine two words such as "daddy bye-bye" by the second birthday. They can use many different consonant sounds at the beginning of words including p, b, m, n, h, and w.



   5.   Beginning Oral Fluency Stage 
2 - 4  years 



          “Words combination into one sentence such as ฉันไป eat ที่ restaurant”
               Children use short sentences like "me want more" or "me want cookie" for asking and answering the simple questions. Also, they will talk about activities at daycare, preschool, or friends' homes. Speaks easily without having to repeat syllables or words




   6.   Completed Bilingual Stage


4 years +


“Able to identify differentiate of languages and when to use”
Uses sentences that give many details
Uses past tense correctly"




This is the way of how children learning the language and the first step to becoming bilingual person. To be the bilingual person is not only depends on the milestone but family, social and education are the main factor to develop bilingualism in person.




Reference:
http://courses.washington.edu/sop/Bilingualism_PrimerPediatricians.pdf


Click for the next topic

http://oppenedyourworld.blogspot.com/2017/04/factor-to-develop-bilingualism-in-person.html




ความคิดเห็น

แสดงความคิดเห็น

โพสต์ยอดนิยมจากบล็อกนี้

07 Type of Bilingual

รูปภาพ
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...
อ่านเพิ่มเติม

05 How bilingual speak

รูปภาพ
          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 ...
อ่านเพิ่มเติม

08 Bilingual education

รูปภาพ
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 confirm...
อ่านเพิ่มเติม