Learning a Foreign Language in the Context of Immersion

Abstract

The following thesis aims to discover how the language acquisition process develops in preschoolers when learning two languages, in the immersion context, as early bilinguals. This article applies and combines knowledge and theories from education, linguistics, psycholinguistics, and the study of bilingualism. Throughout the paper, basic notions about bilingualism and the development of early bilingualism in the case of immersion preschoolers and dominant theories were presented. The methods used to discover this thesis's specific responses were a questionnaire and an interview. Those methods were used on three children, born in the country of immersion and learning both the minority and majority language. The respondents were the parents and preschool teachers of these children.

Keywords

• language development
• bilingual children
• immersion