LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 13 : 1 January 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Some Perspectives on Bilingualism vis-a-vis Language Disorders

Vishnu Nair, MASLP
Sapna Bhat, Ph.D.

The below information provides a brief summary concerning some recent findings in bilingual research. The material is not a typical research article. However; is intended to generate awareness for educators, speech pathologists and others regarding bilingual research.

Have you ever wondered what speaking more than one language can bring to you?

Language is of course the primary mirror to understand another culture and hence there are obvious cultural and social advantages associated with speaking two or more than two languages (bi/multilingualism). More than the ability to just communicate in one language, being bilingual provides us with a certain amount of broadmindedness, adaptation, tolerance and acceptance in life besides other advantages such as more employment opportunities, etc.

Historical Perspectives on Bilingualism

Despite the obvious cultural and social advantages, historically bilingualism was often viewed as disadvantageous with many studies showing poor performance in bilingual children especially on a number of verbal and nonverbal intelligence tests. Leading bilingual researcher Grosjean (2011) said that thirty years ago he was confronted with many views prevailed against bilingualism such as an overall delay in cognitive ability, poor vocabulary development in bilinguals, etc.

This is only the beginning part of the article. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

Vishnu Nair, MASLP
Doctoral Student
Faculty of Human Sciences
ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD)
Department of Cognitive Science
Macquarie University, Sydney
NSW 2109
Australia
vishnuslp85@gmail.com

Sapna Bhat, Ph.D.
Consultant Speech Language Therapist
Naada Clinic
Guest Faculty
University of Southern Denmark
Denmark
sapna.bhat@naadalabs.com
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