Bilingual Person

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Bilingual Person

A person with the ability to speak two languages. In areas where two languages are common, bilingual persons are often paid more to do the same jobs as monolingual persons because they are able to service more customers with less difficulty.
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A bilingual individual uses both languages actively, even when only one language is being used in a monolingual context (Bialystok, 2007, 2010).
"What if I don't speak it?" Classroom strategies to nurture students' heritage languages
This technique involves four steps: (1) forward-translation of the English instrument into the target language by a bilingual individual, (2) back-translation of the translated instrument into English by another bilingual individual, (3) comparative review of the original English and back-translated English versions of the instrument for any inconsistencies, and (4) revision of the translated instrument through collaborative work by the bilingual translators (and possibly additional bilingual individuals).
Culturally competent social work research: methodological considerations for research with language minorities
This effort to form values in Quechua illustrates the cerebral processes of a bilingual individual.
The exhaustion of the bilingual tongue: the failure to recuperate meaning in Jose Maria Arguedas' Los rios profundos
In fact, a bilingual individual versed in English may be at a disadvantage when compared to entering a non-enclave market.
Does it pay to be a bilingual entrepreneur? The effect of language acquisition on income among Latino entrepreneurs in the United States
Well, let us know we had been horribly mistaken, as there are phenomena that happen in the mind of the bilingual individual.
Bilingualism, a perspective
They go from definitions like Grosjean's (1985), totally referred to contexts in which bilingualism occurs in a society, and Hornberger's (2003), more easily adaptable to a diversity of contexts: According to Grosjean a bilingual individual uses two languages regularly in his or her daily life.
La educacion para et bilinguismo en lenguas internacionales en un contexto sociolinguistico monolingue
In stage 1 I selected one prelingually deaf bilingual individual who translated the scale items into ASL.
Translation of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale into American sign language: a principal components analysis. (Instrument Development)
It posits that reading performance is particularly hampered when the bilingual individual has deficits in both languages.
The influence of a time limit and bilingualism on Scholastic Assessment Test performance
It is also possible that the mother tongue, whether it is dominant or not for the bilingual individual, can be Spanish, Vietnamese, Russian, or any one of the world's languages, virtually all of which are represented by immigrant populations in the United States.
Supervision in bilingual counseling: service delivery, training, and research considerations
What are the ethical dilemmas when a monolingual English speaker hires a bilingual individual to conduct interviews in a language other than English?
Assessing language competence: guidelines for assisting persons with limited English proficiency in research and clinical settings
But the researchers also plan to extend their research in other populations and conduct new studies in bilingual individuals and children.
Russian Federation : Neurolinguistics Laboratory Wins 3-Year Grant to Study Prevention, Diagnostics and Therapy of Language Disorders
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