Linguistic: Reflective journal on Bilingualism, Raising a Bilingual Child

Raising a Bilingual Child
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Personally, bilingualism should be part of a child's upbringing. Whether they learn or acquire the language depends on the access of the parents to the language. It is best to have the child be part of the L2 children. It means that the child will start to have exposure to the second language between ages 4 to 8. At this stage, the child will have enough basic knowledge of how language works. It is also still early for them to learn a second language that they will carry until adulthood (Herschensohn & Young-Scholten, 2013).
At ages 0 to 4, the child should be able to establish their mother tongue linguistic ability. They must be able to develop their pronunciation, word and sentence building, and comprehension of the words they hear. Developing these areas will help the child learn another language at the next stage more conveniently.
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