"Aventura are clearly speaking to bilingual, bicultural youth for whom the old, straight-Dominican ways of presenting themselves doesn't reflect who they are," said Deborah Pacini Hernandez, an associate professor at Tufts University and the author of "Bachata: A Social History of a Dominican Popular Music".
Methods & Procedures: Two right-handed, non-native English-speaking participants who showed parallel recovery of two languages after stroke and a group of non-native English-speaking, bilingual controls described a scene in English and in their first language and completed three explicit conflict tasks.
The bilingual babies, however, found it far easier to switch their attention counteracting the previously learnt, but no longer useful response.Monitoring languages and keeping them separate is part of the brain's executive function, so these findings suggest that even before a child can speak, a bilingual environment may speed up that function's development.
At one end, Chinese-speaking bilinguals living in the United States or Canada receive L2 (English) only instruction at school.
The second group consisted of Russian–Hebrew-speaking bilinguals who had not learned to read in their native Russian but had acquired Hebrew as their first literate language.
The first group consisted of Russian–Hebrew-speaking bilinguals who had acquired basic reading skills in Russian as their first language (L1) and literacy and who were literate in Hebrew as a second language.
There's more: Washy is bilingual, speaking English and Hindi.
They married, had two boys and raised them bilingual, speaking English (she is American) and Russian.
Afrim and his brother, Agim, 39, grew up bilingual, speaking Albanian with their father and Serbian with their mother.
