Bilingualism in Early Childhood

Abstract

Bilingualism that arises from different reasons (such as wars, migrations, geographical proximity, and trade, tourism, marriages, living to better standards, work and education) affects children, so children have to grow up in environments where more than one language is spoken. There are various arguments about whether being a bilingual for a child is advantageous or disadvantageous. The studies carried out in this field have shown that the disadvantage can be converted into advantageous situations on condition that the process about the acquisition or learning of the second language has been managed well. From this point of view, the importance of concepts such as language development in early childhood period, views on language development, bilingualism, language acquisition and teaching in early years will be explained in detail in the bilingualism in the early childhood section.