An Investigation of the Developmental benefits of learning two languages at once as a child: Private schools from 05-12 years in Tiaret.

Abstract

In this research we seek to understand the concept of bilingualism in early childhood, and the developmental benefits of learning two languages at once as a child in private schools in Tiaret from 05 to 12 years old. While doing our research we faced some problems especially when recording data such as parents background and languages they spoke could not be controlled, children did not read independently during recording as well as they were too shy to provide the assistance that we required. During this research work we observed that early bilingualism is common and happen in many parts in the world. we hypothesized that learning two languages will not confuse or distract a bilingual child because their brain is flexible , it does not matter how much your child loves languages; learning a few at once can be tricky, foreign languages can enrich the child curiosity and increase their creativity. Two main methods are used in our descriptive work; qualitative and quantitative to reach a valuable research with the aid of ten teachers for the interview, sixty parents for the questionnaire and a small group of children for recording. After the analysis of these three research tools that it used we found that learning a second language in early childhood is beneficial and it is the ideal age to provide a child with a new language because of their fresh memory.