Practicing Language Therapy for Effective Simultaneous Bilingualism: Case Studies

Abstract

Bilingualism and multilingualism are not a typical phenomenon in this present world, rather, it is a norm in the world’s societies these days. People may happen to be bilingual either by acquiring two languages parallelly in their life since childhood or learn with the passage of time as sequential and simultaneous bilinguals. The current study aims to find out the role of language therapists, in terms of supporting parents and teachers, to benefit maximum out of this dual-language ability of their young children, for this case studies were conducted to investigate the question and it was concluded that balanced use of both languages help a child to perform well with proper guidance of language professionals to the parents and teachers. Furthermore, parents always seem trying their child become bilingual because they consider it a positive thing for the better future of their child. This age is the age of advanced technology and science in which new skills are required and demanded. Nowadays, in the whole world, different languages are being used in this technological progress, especially, the developed countries dominate in this field (technology) due to their advanced knowledge in different fields. Hence, the developed countries use their own language(s) in technology and inventions that make it essential to learn more languages. These case studies also depict how much it is advantageous or disadvantageous being bilingual or multilingual.