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Alex A. Song


Apisara Songprated

Feb,17th 1996

21 years old

Third-year student, English major, 

Faculty of Education, Silpakorn University, Thailand
Find your own goal 

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How to raise a bilingual child

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  H i, everyone. Welcome back to my blog! Well, we’re going to talk about the topic that many people want to know.  “How to raise your child to become bilingual”, When you decide to raise your child with two or three languages, there are tons of journal or different types of methods and it’s no right or wrong. 1.     Family agreement: Even though agreement within the family is perhaps the most essential ingredient, I am sometimes asked, "What do I do if my partner doesn't want me speaking to our child in a language he doesn't understand?" An insecure spouse may fear being excluded from "the secret language" between the other parent and the child. Discuss and compromise. It is very important that couples find some solution that is acceptable to both parents as well as beneficial to the child. 2.    Enthusiastic, yet realistic: Once the idea of two languages has settled in, many people consider adding more. Usually, the number of lang
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Priorities for L2 use

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  T o be able to communicate no matter what language, you need to have the language knowledge including culture knowledge, context, content and language use. Relationship of communicative competence We can classify communicative competence by purposes for learning L2 as follows: Academic competence It occurs when learners want to use the L2 primarily as a tool scholarly research, to learn about the other subjects, and as a medium in a specific professional/occupation field. For example - If language learner plan to study the subject at an L2-medium university (i.e., a Thai student studying in the university at the US or studying in Thailand but need to do a thesis in English) - You are likely to need proficiency in L2 academic writing in order to display your knowledge on examinations that may be required for university admission and to earn academic degrees. However, it doesn’t necessarily require fluent speaking ability when you’re proficient
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Let's rewrite your own definition!

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Good morning, guys! This is my first article in " A BILING GAL ." In order not to waste your time, I will be straight to our topic right away! As the topic above says, "Do you know what a bilingualism is?" Can you guess? A combination of the words "Bi-" which means two, and "Lingualism" which related to language. Yes, you're right but this is not all.  So, let's get to the beginning of bilingualism. In the Bible, there was Babel city where the leaders were building a tower in ordered to reach the heaven. And God punished the builder by destroying their, unity, giving them different languages. So, they couldn't work together because they couldn't understand each other's languages. It became the diversity in languages. The tower of Babel Recently, the main factors such as immigration, business travel and education are forces bringing people together. Someone acquires languages from their society
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