Something special happened today, and I want to share it. I think that for the first time I saw A. switching language, in a way that was both conscius and contextual.
Fact: we were reading a book, The Snail and the Whale. In the drawings figured also a boat, A. pointed to it and said Baca (i.e. Barca, =Boat in Italian), then right after (before I could say a word) he said Boat.
This might have happened by chance, it might be him playing with the words he knows, but I like to think that he realised that Barca was not the word to use in that context, because I was there (mummy=English) or because we were reading in English. We shall see…
Picture by <a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/wili/233623990/” target=”_blank”>Wili Hybrid</a>
Bilingualism at 23 months, IV
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Something special happened today, and I want to share it. I think that for the first time I saw A. switching language, in a way that was both conscius and contextual.
Fact: we were reading a book, The Snail and the Whale. In the drawings figured also a boat, A. pointed to it and said Baca (i.e. Barca, =Boat in Italian), then right after (before I could say a word) he said Boat.
This might have happened by chance, it might be him playing with the words he knows, but I like to think that he realised that Barca was not the word to use in that context, because I was there (mummy=English) or because we were reading in English. We shall see…
Picture by <a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/wili/233623990/” target=”_blank”>Wili Hybrid</a>
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