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2022 - Volume 6 - Number 2

Perceptions of Language Acquisition in Different Bilingualism Development

Sebastián Castro * sc069854@gmail.com * ORCID: 0000-0001-5857-9332
University of Guanajuato, Division of social sciences and humanities, Guanajuato, MEXICO

Open Journal for Psychological Research, 2022, 6(2), 41-48 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojpr.0602.04041c
Received: 7 November 2022 ▪ Revised: 24 December 2022 ▪ Accepted: 30 December 2022

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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ABSTRACT:
When bilingualism is brought up as a term, is commonly associated with just the ability to speak two languages, and some other factors that come with this term are not considered in order to give an identity to the individuals who are considered bilinguals. Some aspects of this environment, for example, the background that individuals in how to acquire the language play an important role in order to see how those individuals perceive some of the aspects that are implied in linguistics studies. Another thing to consider is how the social environment that individuals have affects their language development and by the same, it can provide them a feeling of belongingness in certain environments that are around them. Also, these differences in the background of bilinguals can make them have a different perception of each aspect because even if the development of two languages has reached the same goal, the process that those individuals followed to achieve those goals was different and could make them get a different perspective due to the different aspects that each individual identifies in their different process. All of the aspects that are associated with the acquisition of a second language will be analyzed in this paper and will provide the data that allow the identification of each perspective of two different groups of bilinguals, and will make clearer if those aspects, has a big influence on language development.

KEY WORDS: Bilingualism, migrant families, immigrants, language acquisition, Raised Bilinguals (RB), Non-Raised Bilinguals (NRB).

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Sebastián Castro, University of Guanajuato, Division of Social Sciences and Humanities, Guanajuato, MEXICO. E-mail: sc069854@gmail.com.

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