PSY315H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Metalinguistic Awareness, Language Transfer, Bilingual Education
Document Summary
The vocabulary is more varied and more abstract, the grammatical structures more complex, and the structure of discourse is different from the language used in everyday communicative peer interaction. achievement gap. A persistent difference in academic achievement between groups. Environments in which learning a second language in addition to a first language are supported. In contrast with subtractive bilingual environments in which the acquisition of a second language has the effect of diminishing or replacing the first language. Strictly speaking, bilingual education is education in which the curriculum is taught in two languages, also known as dual language programs. Often the term is used to refer to a range of services provided to bilingual children in schools. Changing from one type of language use to another, such as switching from a formal to an informal register when talking to people who differ in status.
