Simultaneous Bilingualism

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One way a child can learn a second language is “Simultaneous Bilingualism, refers to children who have early exposure to both languages and are given ample opportunities to use both.” (Fostering, 1995. p. 3) This is where a child is exposed to a second language early as birth. Possibly, both parents may speak their native tongue and the second language. An example is a friend of mine grew up in a Polish-speaking household, where both parents immigrated to the United States from Poland, yet both parents had started learning English before the immigrated here and there were other family members who were here in the States that had already spoke English for some time, thus the friend and her brother were both immersed in two languages

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