smith study bruk et al study cognitive skills bilingual

1. Is bilingualism detrimental ?
Retard the acquisition of L1 or L2.
Retard the cognitive development.

2. Retard the acquisition of L1 or L2.
• Smith study in the 1930 th
Iowa children
monolingual
Just English
Hawaii children
bilingual
English along
with other
lang.

3. Retard the acquisition of L1 or L2.
• Result
Bilingual children from Hawaii had many
errors in their english speech.
Bilingual caused retardation in language
development
Recieved
many
critises
Not reliable
Methodical
issues

4. Retard the acquisition of L1 or L2
• Bruk Et Al (1976)
Narative English speaking children in French
emmersion programme.
Their French was almost as
native french
speaking children

5. Retard the acquisition of L1 or L2
• Result
Importantly their is no loss in their English
native speaking
Both L1 and L2 not effected in a bad way no
retardation of lang. Develepment because of
bilingualism
The general evidence that their is no
retrdation of language development beacuse
of bilingualism.

6. Retard the cognitive development
• Acquiring two languages will effect in a
neagative way the child intellegent, creativity
and thinking ability.
The evidence shows that
children around 4 years old
based on cognitive test those
were bilingual were superior to
monolingual