By Stephen J Caldas
This ebook is a longitudinal case research conscientiously detailing the French/English bilingual and biliterate improvement of 3 young children in a single relations starting with their births and finishing in past due early life. The publication focuses such a lot particularly at the kid's acquisition of French and English in the course of their early via past due early life, in either their Louisiana and Quebec domestic environments.
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State admitted in which native English-speakers were in the minority (Crawford, 1992). Many of the French-speaking communities in Louisiana were tight-knit, and located in isolated, lowland areas of the state, one of which was a venue for 10 years of the current study. These communities clung tenaciously to their language and heritage, referring to the English-speaking settlers who began arriving in the state as ‘Les Américains’ well into the 20th and even 21st centuries. Indeed, at the turn of the 21st century there were still a few elderly native-born Louisianans who spoke only French.
I wanted to know how their language preferences related to their changing ages and environments. ‘Language preference’, ‘bilingual dominance’, ‘bilingual proficiency’, ‘fluency’ and ‘degree of bilingualism’ are terms which have been loosely, and often interchangeably used in the areas of both linguistics and education over the last few decades. This has caused a good deal of muddled thinking, and, as Snow (1991) has noted, has created the need to clarify and define more precisely what we mean when we make statements such as ‘… he speaks Spanish like a native’, or ‘ … she’s a perfect bilingual’ (p.
I propose that this later sense of the term ‘bilingual dominance’ is really referring to ‘bilingual preference’, a concept we more fully develop and utilize in Caldas and Caron-Caldas (2000). Thus, there is general agreement in the literature that an individual can have more than one ‘preferred’ language, depending upon the language context and/or environment. , one of a bilingual’s two languages always lords it over the other in some sense, but that he or she has a decided ‘preference’ for a given language that is context sensitive.