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Bilingual Education Models

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Today we talked about the Bilingual Education Models

Bilingualism has been the subject of study for many years. This term is associated with the phenomenon of speaking and understanding two or more languages. The term can refer to individuals (individual bilingualism) as well as to an entire society (social bilingualism). But there may be distinctions between ability and use of a language, or differences in proficiency between the two languages. One of the main misconceptions about bilinguals is that they are equally proficient with both languages in speaking, listening, writing, reading as well as having a perfect knowledge of their respective cultures. Bilinguals usually don’t speak both languages equally well and that is because they use each language in different contexts, activities and domains (home, school, work…).The following picture shows different types of bilinguals depending on their proficiency in each language: semi-bilingual, passive bilingual, compound or dominant bilingual, co-ordinate bilingual, balanced bilingual, equilingual.

While bilingualism refers to the ability of knowing and speaking two languages multilingualism is applied to the abillity of speaking several languages, usually three or more. In recent years, the term plurilingualism has become very popular and is now confused with multilingualism. What we most often refer to as multilingualism is actually plurilingualism. This is an individual's or a society's ability to speak at least three languages and switch between languages according to the circumstances at hand. Multilingualism, on the other hand, is meant to refer to a society in which different languages coexist side by side but are used separately. It may mean that some people speak only one language and other people speak several languages, but what matters is that there are several languages being spoken. For example, Papua New Guinea is the most multilingual country in the world with 840 living languages.  Indonesia comes in second with 710 living languages.  Third place goes to Nigeria, having 524 living languages. On the other hand, Dutch are considered to be the most plurilingual people as most of them usually speak three or more languages, followed by Slovenian and Danish in the EU. 

Finally we have seen the following video:We have finally seen the following video, which deals with the advantages of learning languages. 

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