bilingual children. Professor Elena Lieven explains.
Across the world, children learn very different languages in very different child-rearing situations and cultures. So, what does this tell us about the development of language and communication? And how might these differences affect a child's ability to settle into nursery?
LANGUAGE DIFFERENCES
Languages differ in both their structure and what you can and can't express in a given language. English speakers tend to assume that English 'ways' are 'natural' and common to all languages 1. But languages differ in all sorts of weird and wonderful ways, and early years practitioners need to take account of these differences when working with bilingual children. Here are some examples.
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