The document discusses bilingualism and the cognitive advantages it provides children. It describes that bilingual children can acquire two languages simultaneously or sequentially. Simultaneous bilingualism involves acquiring two languages from birth, while sequential involves learning a second language after the first. Early exposure to two languages positively impacts children's linguistic, cognitive, and reading development. Bilingual children have been shown to have better metalinguistic awareness, classification skills, concept formation, analogical reasoning, visual-spatial skills, storytelling skills and semantic development compared to monolingual children.

1. THE BILINGUAL CHILD EBRU GÜRSOY (2007177027) GÜLDEN BORAN (2007177050) İPEK BİLGİN (2006177146)

3. Aside from the obvious advantage of being able to speak more than one language,it impacts the child positively in the sense of self esteem ,future job opportunities and ability to live and travel abroad.

8. Ages of bilingual acquisiton One way of categorizing types of bilingual acquisition is by the age at which the two languages are acquired- infants, child, adoloscent, and adult.

9. Infant or early bilingual acquisiton involves the child learning two languages virtually simultaneosly from the outset. Sometimes this results from having parents who have different native languages, but also speak the other parent’s language.

12. This may be occasioned by the family moving to another country, the arrival of a caregiver who speaks a different language, or the child starting a nursery class or school is taught in a different language from the one used at home.

14. SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES M onolingual children can differ in the types of strategies they use when first to start to talk. Analytic learners Gestalt learners (left brain dominant) (right brained)

22. Ex.1. * Where are my shoe ? * It' s like a scissors. In English some nouns are used in the plural form only as in "scissors," or the plural form is generally utilized due to the fact that they are composed of pairs as in "shoes and stockings." In Turkish, however, these nouns do not necessarily take any plural marker. ( syntactic )