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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As professors responsible for helping these students prepare for the classroom, although they may code-switch, as bilingual individuals do, it is reassuring to us to see that in situations where they are expected to use Spanish at a higher level, they do so with confidence.
I Influence Too: The Role of Professors in Developing Bilingual Teachers' Spanish Proficiency
"Our program aims to meet this demand by providing proficient bilingual individuals with the skills they need to become professional legal or healthcare translators and interpreters," she said in a statement.
UNO adds certificate program in translation, interpreting
"By studying infants, a population that does not yet speak any language, we discovered that the real difference between monolingual and bilingual individuals later in life is not in the language itself, but rather, in the attention system used to focus on language.
Hearing two languages increases attention development in infants: Study
When you look at bilingual individuals who have suffered neurodegeneration, their brains look damaged.
Speaking two languages may help the ageing brain
To untangle this dynamic, the study's researchers, who also included San Diego State University's Karen Emmorey, studied bilingual individuals fluent in English and American Sign Language (ASL), who often produce both languages simultaneously.
NYU: New Research Shows How We Turn on & off Languages-And That Doing so Is Easier Than Previously Thought
Another study that was also conducted with adults [21], analyzed the differences between the VOT duration measures of plosive consonants [p, t, k] in the speech production of 14 bilingual individuals (Spanish-English), aged 18 to 24 years.
Comparison of plosive sounds in monolingual and bilingual children, using the voice onset time acoustic parameter: cases report
Tentative recent research findings on language and cognition suggest that bilingual individuals are better at executive control ?
English and Hong Kong
The second objective's findings disclosed that bilingual individuals in Florida had a significantly different attitude toward undocumented immigrants than non-bilingual individuals.
Communicating about undocumented immigration issues: Is your target audience bilingual?
While much relevant research concerns preparing mainstream teachers to work and support ELLs culturally and linguistically (de Jong & Harper, 2005; Hite & Evans, 2006; Honawar, 2009; Leavitt, 2013; Lucas, 2008), more study is needed to validate and consider the dual language expertise of bilingual individuals as resources to address the increasing needs of multilingual populations of children in schools.
From ELLs to Bilingual Teachers: Spanish-English Speaking Latino Teachers' Experiences of Language Shame & Loss
The results did not show a significant difference between monolingual and bilingual individuals in perceptions of speakers' code-switching in a video (PCSV-LI and PCSV-UCA scores).
Monolingual and bilingual perceptions of code-switching: a difference in cognition but not competence
By involving the parents and promoting language awareness, the project was able to form fully bilingual individuals who felt supported by the school environment and obtained much better results in secondary education than the majority of migrant children in Flanders.
Beheydt, L., & Hiligsmann, P. (Eds.) (2011). Met immersie aan de slag/Au travail, en immersion
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