PSYC 341 Study Guide - Multilingualism, Communicative Competence, Cadency

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 341
• Professor: Richard Koestner

Document Summary

It is valuable to make the distinction that bilingualism and multilingualism as an individual characteristic, in a social group, community, region or country: between individual bilingualism or societal bilingualism, between language ability and language use. Terminology: ability: people, use, some bilinguals actively speak and write both languages( productive competence). Ascendant bilingualism is when he second language is developing. Particularly occurs in immigrants: other context that are additive is when a second language is acquired without any cost to the first language as occurs in elite or prestigious bilinguals, elective bilingualism vs circumstantial bilingualism: l, elective bilingualism. They add a second language without losing their first language: circumstantial bilingualism bilinguals because of their circumstance i. e. immigrants. Have a risk of losing their first language to the second language (subtractive context) Majority language may be used to gain acceptance and minority language may be used o forma affiliation or belonging to a group.