Raising Bilingual ChildrenBy Marsha Rosenberg
... that many times the child does not possess the same fluency in both languages. In addition, the author argues that by not using the correct strategies, a child can become a semilingual and have deficiencies in both languages. She states, however, that few people are truly balanced bilinguals. Usually one language is dominant. The author stresses that children have a better change for bilingual language development if they begin their training before adolescence. Rosenberg identifies two types of childhood bilingualism: simultaneous learning and sequential or successive bilingualism. In simultaneous learning, the child is learning both languages at the same time. This entails that the parent will speak both languages, use the language with the child, both languages are spoken among the family, and the child uses both languages in the community. When the child engages in sequential or successive bilingualism, one language is learned at home and t...