Question on bilingual language acquisition from non-native speaker

[Aliyah MORGENSTERN]

Dear Kristin,
I'm not sure the answer to your question is simple. There could be so  
many different situations... It is great to be bilingual and even  
better to be multilingual, it does not make you more "intelligent",  
some kids do perform better in certain tasks but each kid is different  
and noone has proved that bilingual people are MORE intelligent  
whatever that means.
All in all, the parents have to be feel really comfortable with the  
language and have to picture themselves speaking to their children in  
another language than what their own parents spoke to them and decide  
whether THAT is "doable" for them and if they want it. They might also  
want to try to project themselves in situations when they will have to  
argue with their teen-age kid or comfort her/him or discuss all kinds  
of issues... So it's a very personal decision I would say.

On the practical side, if that choice is made, I really think it will  
only work out if the community or part of the community speaks the  
chosen language as well and even better if the kid gets a lot of that  
language in school...

My best

Aliyah MORGENSTERN
Unviersité Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3


Le 10 déc. 08 à 12:49, annalee harley a écrit :

> hi,
>
> Studies have shown that bilingual learners end up alot smarter than  
> there peers, they use neural pathways unknown to the monolingual  
> child. I think You are very lucky to have high proficiancy in  
> another language, so why not teach it to your child.
>
> yours annalee.
>
> > Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:04:52 -0800
> > Subject: Question on bilingual language acquisition from non- 
> native speaker
> > From: kristinborjesson at yahoo.de
> > To: info-childes at googlegroups.com
> >
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I'm not entirely sure whether this is the right place to pose my
> > question. However, a friend of mine suggested I'd try here to get  
> some
> > information on the following issue.
> >
> > I'd like to know whether there are any studies investigating the
> > question of whether or not a non-native speaker of a language (with
> > fairly high competency) should try and raise his child bilingually
> > nevertheless. I'm simply interested in views on that question.
> >
> > I'd be very happy if you could help me with suggestions or  
> references
> > on this.
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > Best,
> > Kristin
> >
> >


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