LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN BILINGUAL CHILDREN

Abstract

Abstract.Becoming bilingual, whether in infancy or in later childhood, is a 
formidable task for children. Like monolingual first-language development, the 
acquisition of two languages essentially evolves out of trying to carry on a conversation 
with someone, an adult caretaker or another child. These efforts at social interaction 
strike at the heart of language development from the beginning. Developing the 
communicative competence to achieve success in conveying and understanding 
meaning in its many aspects is a time-consuming, highly complex process that reaches 
far beyond surface assessments of sounds, words and sentences.