Addressing common misconceptions about multilinguals (Podcast) (original) (raw)

Abstract

On this episode, Madalena Cruz-Ferreira talks bout some common misconceptions about multilinguals. Specifically, we discuss the following myths: Multilinguals can learn languages easily, but only in childhood; Multilinguals don’t have many languages, they have many half-languages; Multilingualism should be encouraged but only in languages that matter; Multilinguals are multilinguals because they are gifted for languages.

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