Bilingualism and Education

This paper tends to study bilingualism and education. Bilingualism is the ability to use twolanguages. There are two kinds of bilingualism: simultaneous which means learning twolanguages at the same time and sequential which means learning second language after firstlanguage acquisition. Some people worry that bilingualism is bad for a child but there are a lot ofadvantages to know more than one language. Knowing a second language benefits childcognitive development, ties to sense of cultural identity, it encourages cross-cultural awarenessand promotes the ability of social interactions. Evidences indicate that learning a secondlanguage doesn’t interfere with the development of a child first language, moreover a bilingualchild may have learning difficulties but this is not a consequence of bilingualism per se. Due tothe growing need for a bilingual education, many different programs as immersion, submersionand maintenance are provided for teaching which have been discussed separately.

کلیدواژه ها:

Bilingualism ، Bilingual Education ، Simultaneous Bilingualism ، Sequential Bilingualism ، Second language