Simultaneous bilingual acquisition in a toddler raised in a bilingual home in Mexico: a single case study
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2015-11
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"This thesis reports on a mixed-method case study investigation concerning the bilingual language acquisition of a toddler raised in a Mexican home.The child was 30 months old when the observations started; as this study was carried out during a ten month period covering from June 2014 (Week 23/2014) until March 2015 (Week 13/2015), the toddler was almost 40 months old when the observations finalised. Its primary aim was to throw detailed light onto the process of bilingual language acquisition in a family of Non-Native English Speakers within a mainly Spanish monolingual community. In order to have a more focalised study, the observations were concentrated on the comprehension of both languages through the acquisition of linguistic commands by the toddler. Research data were mainly collected through observations and field notes taken by the researcher. The research instrumentswere spreadsheets that helped the researcher to keep a record of the linguistic commands acquired, the different types of input items used, the amount of exposure and other relevant observations. The acquisition of commands is measured in terms of execution of the actions requested both in Spanish and in english.”
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