Bilingualism and Second Language Learning (original) (raw)
Each language is unique and distinctive. But every language has the same basic components, namely sound, meaning, structure and vocabulary ; thus what one has to learn to attain inguistic mastery, whether in his mother tongue or in a second language (S.L. hereafter) is the same. The difference lies in the how of it, both in the acquiring and the functioning. It is how the sound and structure have been used that makes one language different from another. Thus, the factors at work in the monolingual situation are different from those of the bilingual situation.
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