Essays on Second Language

Nowadays, some people in Puerto Rico consider bilingualism a waste of time and knowledge. Indeed, they consider their language of origin as the most important in comparison to the ones from foreign countries. However, the world it’s changing at a pace so rapidly, in which...

As globalization brings more and more diverse cultures together, it also brings along their languages; thus has bilingualism become more and more prevalent in modern-day society. Bilingualism is found to have advantages and disadvantages — while bilingualism can result in a more limited vocabulary, lower...

In the original version of Ferguson’s model, ‘bilingualism’ referred to the coexistence of two unrelated languages within one speech community. In more recent literature, this term is used as a psycholinguistic term referring to a speaker’s proficiency in two or more languages. The existence of...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation between Bilingualism and English learning and speaking anxiety. As, the research is concerned with the students of English department students of Karachi University who are suffering from speaking anxiety. Bilingualism and English language learning anxiety...

With inconsistent results from various studies, identifying and quantifying the bilingual advantage, if there indeed is one, has become an increasingly controversial field of debate. Whilst initial studies proved promising; the bilingual advantage has more consistent null hypotheses with larger sample sizes and more robust...

It goes without saying that nowadays the concept of bilingualism remains one of the most debatable issues among linguists and psychologists. According to the statistics, bilinguals constitute more than half of the world’s population. Due to globalization processes it is envisaged that the number will...

The idea that being bilingual gives people an advantage on cognitive functions has gained more popularity throughout the years . Be as it may, the specific cognitive advantages of bilingualism seem to be hard to pinpoint. Some studies that focused on the advantages of bilingualism...