EARLY BILINGUALISM: CHALLENGE FOR EDUCATORS AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS (KINDERGARTENS AND SCHOOLS)

Gramatkovski, Biljana and Ristevska, Marija (2019) EARLY BILINGUALISM: CHALLENGE FOR EDUCATORS AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS (KINDERGARTENS AND SCHOOLS). Teacher - International Journal of Education.

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Abstract

Bilingualism is a phenomenon that is associated with the normal development of language,
most often there are children of members of national minorities, children of linguistically
mixed marriages or children of parents who leave to live in foreign countries or children of
workers who temporary work abroad. At the time of speech development, these children
begin more or less, simultaneously and equally adopting the two different languages and
make difference between these languages practically from the beginning of their speaking.
One of these two languages, both in the order of time and in the place of the "hierarchy", i.e.
emotional border, remains the first language - that is, the language in which the child
addresses the mother (or a person who had a first emotional relationship with the child), is in
the true sense of the word mother language.
If parents and educators are working enough with the child and if it does not have any
additional problems for early introduction of another language, bilingualism does not have to
create more difficulties. Such a situation for children acts stimulatingly on the ability to learn
a foreign language, but it is certainly not known how this will affect the overall psychological
development of the child.
But despite this, we summarize that the advantages of bilingualism in bilingual children are:
children are better in keeping their attention on relevant information and ignore the
distraction; they are more creative and better in planning and solving the complex problems
than monolinguals. This work, apart from the early bilingualism in the family, will talk about
the early bilingualism in the kindergarten, as well as the approaches of the educator to the
development of this type of bilingualism.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Scientific Fields (Frascati) > Social Sciences > Educational sciences
Divisions: Faculty of Education
Depositing User: Josif Petrovski
Date Deposited: 30 Sep 2021 14:53
Last Modified: 05 Oct 2021 07:46
URI: https://eprints.uklo.edu.mk/id/eprint/6573

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