BILINGUALITY AND COGNITION
IN CHILDREN
Language socialization
socialisation through language and socialisation to use language
which goals are
orienting towards social status and role-appropriate language use
teaching culture through language
including
values
manners
context
setting functional priorities in social communication
developing stylistic preferences and fostering meta-communicative
awareness
which is formed
by
the developement
of a theory of mind
the cultural and
social environment
interaction
people inside
the context
Bilinguality and
cognitive development
Bilinguality
Cognitive development
will provide
the child to see a language
as a particular system
the developement
of cognitive
abilities
metalinguistic
awareness
the control and self-regulation
of cognitive processes
the use of more
than one language
in conjunction with
more complex
and better equipped
mental calculus
alternate between
languages
have a tridimentional
view of the language
have cognitive
flexibility and
creativity
children are in a
multilingual environment
different
stages
language differentiation
code switching