What are some of the characteristics of bilingual children?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. Bilingual children show some differences with monolingual children, but this may largely be because the vocabularies used at home and in school are not identical (Bialystok et al., 2010). Bilingual children do not generally encounter more academic problems than children who speak only one language (Barac & Bialystok, 2011). There is some "mixing" of languages by bilingual children (Gonzalez, 2005), but they can generally separate the two languages from an early age.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false