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Bilingualism infographic

Melany Bedoya

Created on August 21, 2023

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Bilingualism

Melany Bedoya Montoya

To be bilingual means...

Being able to understand the world with different languages. Expressing ideas, feelings, world view, with the identity of speech, including the context.

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Cultural and Linguistic discourse in society

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Discouse analysis

The influence of media...

The influence of the media on our understanding of bilingualism is very noticeable when it comes to the way we communicate with the globalised world, since for the whole world a person who knows English apart from their mother tongue is someone who is bilingual. While with this infographic we were able to see that being bilingual is more than just knowing English.

To be bilingual means...

Types of bilingualism

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Bilingual brain

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Characteristics of bilingual people

Some bilingual change their speech of pronunciation depending on the language they are using to.

bilinguals have a language store for each of their languages

They choose to use their different languages depending on the context

bilinguals have a general conceptual store, which acts as a mediator

Cultural and Linguistic discourse in society

What is a discourse analysis?

The discourse analysis demostrates how language shapes reality and reveal dominant ways of thinking an acting.

Language in Inter views

Newspaper Bias

Language Choice In Policy Texts

Television Analysis

Film Critique

Examining Marketing Texts

Discourse/discourse

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Little

James Paul Gee

Diglossia

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Maximal bilingual

Someone with near native control of two or more languages.

Natural bilingual

Someone who has not undergone any specific training and who is often not in a position to translate or interpret with facility between two languages.

Minimal bilingual

Someone with only a few words and phrases in a second language.

Balanced bilingual

Someone whose mastery of two languages in roughly equivalent

Early bilingual

Someone who has acquired two languages early in childhood

Coordinate bilingual

Someone whose two languages are learnt in distinctively separate context.

Ascendant bilingual

Someone whose ability to function in a second language is developing due to increased use.

Late bilingual

Someone who has become a bilingual later than childhoold.

Additive bilingual

Someone whose two languages combine in a complementary and enriching fashion.

Compound bilingual

Someone whose two languages are learnt at the same time, often in the same context.

Dominant bilingual

Someone wtih greater in one of his or her languages and uses it significantly more than the other language.

Dormant Bilingual

Someone who has emigrated to a foreing country for a considerable period of time and has little opportunity to keep the first language actively in use