Negative Effects Of Bilingualism

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 There is a “CORELATION” between the effects of “BILINGUALISM AND THE COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN”.
 BILINGUALISM is actually the two languages which are spoken in single family or rather it is imposed on children to learn parent’s two different languages.
 BILINGUALISM have both Positive and Negative effects on the Child’s linguistic, Cognitive and Educational Development.
 Before discussing the impacts of bilingualism, another concept that is the concept of SECOND LANGUAGE is necessary to be differentiated from bilingualism.”SECOND LANGUAGE IS THE LANGUAGE WHICH IS LEARNT AFTER BEEN MASTER ALREADY IN ONE LANGUAGE”. It also has impacts as bilingualism have and also have similarities in their impacts.

 “POSITIVE EFFECTS OF BILINGUALISM”:
“BILIGUALISM positive impacts are much less than that of negative but the most important advantage is that child become active and their intellectual become more and more sharper as he seek more of dual languages”
“NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF BILINGUALISM”:
• BILINGUAL CHILDREN have probably lower IQ Levels and that they are outer performed by monolinguals in both verbal and non-verbal intelligence tests.
• BILINGUALS are more sensitive to SEMANTIC RELATIONS BETWEEN WORDS. For example, they are unable to name for an object in a sentence, also the grammer mistakes.
• When mother tells her child to call his father ‘DADY’ but father tells child to call him ‘PAPA’ (when mother is English speaking and father is Urdu speaking) then child is unable to differentiate between two different words to speak and will only able to speak little words only like “PA”, “DA” at early stages of child’s age.
• Also bilinguals do less than monolinguals in ‘VOCABULARY TESTS’ and also picture choosing and naming different objects in it.
• LANGUAGE FLUENCY is also affected for bilinguals because they became confused and double minded before choosing appropriate words for particular object in particular

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