by syafiqah shamsudin

BIILINGUALISM

piqashamsudin94 — 2014-05-22 01:04:50 UTC

What is bilingualism?

having some ability to use two or more languages.

Across the globe, the majority of the population is either bilingual or multilingual. In Australia, over 200 different languages are spoken, with roughly 19% of the population speaking a language other than English.

LEVELS OF BILINGUALISM

piqashamsudin94 — 2014-05-22 01:25:08 UTC

passive bilingual - he or she has the ability to understand a second language but is unable to reply in that language.

basic bilingualism - when they can speak with family members and other adults but are behind monolingual children of the same age

native-like ability - where their level of spoken language is hard to tell apart from their monolingual peers.

How children become bilingual?

piqashamsudin94 — 2014-05-22 01:26:38 UTC

One Person-One Language- families in which parents speak different native languages. For example, the family might live in Australia and the mother may speak English (the majority language) to the children

Minority language- two parents might have migrated from Peru to Australia, and speak Spanish to their children, while their children go to an English speaking school.

Code switching

piqashamsudin94 — 2014-05-22 01:30:12 UTC

When people alternates two/more languages in context of single conversation

participants
solidarity
status
topic affective function

Lexical borrowing

piqashamsudin94 — 2014-05-22 01:35:27 UTC

Results from lack of vocabulary and involves borrowing single words mainly nouns

E.g: tudung, jogging

piqashamsudin94 — 2014-05-22 01:38:09 UTC

Functions of code switching

piqashamsudin94 — 2014-05-22 02:05:03 UTC

Functions of Code Switching

piqashamsudin94 — 2014-05-22 02:07:26 UTC