Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hound.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!hound!llfe From: llfe@hound.UUCP (L.FENG) Newsgroups: net.kids,net.nlang Subject: Re: Teaching children to be bilingual Message-ID: <666@hound.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Oct-84 16:29:41 EDT Article-I.D.: hound.666 Posted: Mon Oct 8 16:29:41 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Oct-84 03:57:48 EDT References: <1505@ucla-cs.ARPA>, <858@ihuxb.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 11 The other thing that happens is that children learn to understand (listen) to language X, but not speak it. (Assuming that Y is the local language.) This is not all that bad. It is much easier to learn a language in school if you have a prior listening knowledge of it. The limitation is that the range of vocabulary is usually restricted to work/play about the home, and doesn't emcompass things like politics, economics, science. -- From the lunch hour of houxz!llf.