Communication Strategy Use in a Bilingual/Bicultural Child

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Communication Strategies (CS) are the methods which speakers use to compensate for difficulties in communicating and studies in CS have tended to focus on students learning a second language. However, bilingual children, especially children who are both bilingual and bicultural, also face many unique difficulties communicating within two different language communities. Having been raised with two languages, these children, however, almost always have one language, known as their primary language, in which they are more proficient. Their other language is known as their subordinate language and is weaker and less fluent in most cases. In order to compensate for this, bilinguals, especially bilingual children, learn unique strategies to meet their communicative needs in both languages. The study below presents a case study on CS use in a seven-year-old, bilingual, bicultural child. First, the author will give an outline of CS research, especially research associated with CS use in bilingual subjects. Then, language samples obtained from story-telling sessions will be analyzed in order to describe the subject's use of CS.
2011-03-04