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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The nature of semantic organization in the two languages of a bilingual individual affects influences their performance on verbal fluency tasks.
The nature of lexical-semantic access in bilingual aphasia
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
The most widely used technique in these guidelines is the model proposed by Brislin (1970, 1980), which consists of a series of translations and back-translations of the original instrument by bilingual individuals. 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. For example, Ernesto prepares the thought in Spanish with the words, "Acaso no podria decirse," but he finishes it with the Quechua terms, "yawar rumi." From one conceptual base, the young protagonist must manage the conflict inherent between his two language processing systems in order to construct ideas about the world in which he lives, how he relates to it and who he is.
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
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
The challenge in exploring these issues lies with selecting an appropriate level of analysis, given that clients, counselors, and supervisors can be bilingual or multilingual and that either the bilingual individual's mother tongue or English, or both, can be his or her dominant or preferred language.
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
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