The French-Farsi Simultaneous Early Bilingualism in an Iranian Child--Study on the Regularity of the Presence of the Minority Language in the First Lexical Productions of a Bilingual Child

Autor/inn/en	Jalilian, Sahar; Rahmatian, Rouhollah; Safa, Parivash; Letafati, Roya
Titel	The French-Farsi Simultaneous Early Bilingualism in an Iranian Child--Study on the Regularity of the Presence of the Minority Language in the First Lexical Productions of a Bilingual Child
Quelle	In: International Education Studies, 10 (2017) 2, S.156-165 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1913-9020
Schlagwörter	French; Bilingualism; Indo European Languages; Age Differences; Vocabulary Development; Parent Child Relationship; Foreign Countries; Infants; Toddlers; Second Language Learning; Language Acquisition; Parent Attitudes; Family Environment; Bilingual Education; Audio Equipment; Statistical Analysis; Iran + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Französisch; Bilingualismus; Indoeuropäisch; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Wortschatzarbeit; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Ausland; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Infants; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Elternverhalten; Familienmilieu; Bilingual teaching; Bilingualer Unterricht; Audio-CD; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	In a simultaneous bilingual education, there are many factors that can affect its success, primarily the age of the child and socio-cognitive elements. This phenomenon can be initially studied in the first lexical productions of either language in a child. The present study focuses on the early lexical developments of a child, who lives in the monolingual society of Iran, where there is no linguistic milieu for French, and has been exposed to a bilingual education since birth. Applying Ronjat's principle of "one parent-one language" (1913), the parents have formed the child's basic linguistic interactions; the father employs Farsi in his interactions with the child as his mother tongue while the mother uses French as her foreign language. The data is collected from audio files recorded in the period between 18 and 36 months old of the child, containing her everyday interactions with her parents. Through the analysis of the data with the purpose of studying the changes of the presence of the minority language words, i.e. French, in the child's sentences at different ages, questions are raised regarding the conditions of a persistent presence of both languages and the reason due to which one language positions as a minor means of communication, observing parental attitudes and environmental issues that can influence the language acquisition procedure. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01