Drawing on the assigned reading about bilingual language acquisition, how would you characterize the child’s language dominance based on this transcript?

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Answer the following questions. (Your responses to each question should be 1-3 sentences, or a bulleted list)

1. Based on the readings and your knowledge of child language development, what can you infer about this child’s expressive and receptive language abilities. Consider the child’s syntactic, semantic, pragmatic abilities and describe at least 3 features/skills you notice.

2. Drawing on the assigned reading about bilingual language acquisition, how would you characterize the child’s language dominance based on this transcript?

3. (a) Identify and list 3 examples of code-switching by the child.

(b) How would you characterize the child’s code-switching. Did the codes witching occur within an utterance ?

(c) What purpose do you think the child’s code-switching serves?

4. (a) Identify and list 3 examples of code-switching by the father.

(b) How would you characterize the father’s code-switching?

(c) what purpose do you think the father’s code-switching serves?

 

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