a question about multilingual babies

[parisa Daftarifard]

Language delay is much more dangerous than loosing time for true
bilingualism. There are many risk factors like being autistic, developmental
delay and global delay in terms of cognition. I think recent psychology
suggests for learning one language first and then being exposed to other
languages. I can send you some books off list.

Best,
Parisa

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:55 AM, beachjade <beachjade at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Tamar and Yves,
>
> There is a recent paper by Janet Werker that may be relevant to your second
> question about how early should you expose your child to his many languages.
>  In contrast to an earlier response to your post, my reading of the
> literature suggests that bilingualism/multilingualism in an of itself is not
> a risk factor in development.  This is echoed by
>
> http://www.lsadc.org/info/pdf_files/Bilingual.pdf
>
>  <http://www.lsadc.org/info/pdf_files/Bilingual.pdf>
> http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/pspi/pspi_10_3.pdf
>
>  <http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/pspi/pspi_10_3.pdf>
> http://www.psychologicalscience.org/media/releases/2010/werker.cfm
>
>
> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Tamar & Yves <tamarmr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>> Our 10 months old son is exposed to 3 languages at home ( each one of
>> us is speaking to him his mother- tongue, and we speak English between
>> us) and to a 4th one outside.
>>
>>
>> Soon he will be starting Nursery, and we were wondering what language
>> it should be in. Is it better to expose him simultaneously to all 4
>> languages or should we do it gradually over the first few years of his
>> life (It's possible to sign him up to a nursery in my husnband's
>> mother tongue (2)/ english (3)/ bi lingual (enviroment+English)(4))
>>
>>
>> We don't want language acquisition to be too much of a burden on him,
>> and not sure how many languages he can learn at once.
>>
>>
>> We are aware of the large number of factors affecting the answer, but
>> does anyone know or refer us to research done on the specific issues
>> of (i) number of languages babies can learn and its implication on
>> their emotional state; and (ii) Is it better to expose a baby to those
>> languages simultaneously or gradually over the first few years of his
>> life.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tamar & Yves
>>
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Islamic Azad University of Science and Research

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