Research in the field of education and learning shows that the mother tongue of the child a good foundation to build on the second language. In addition, it has been shown that only in English politics is often unrecognized impact on education, if speakers of other languages to absorb a negative attitude towards their mother tongue (or language varieties of ethnicity) and culture, which are widespread in society.
The impact of this attitude are evident in this story, families tended to immigrants in the United States to preserve their own language as an important part of their culture. Immigrants are bilingual has always been for two or three generations after immigration, but eventually gave the language of the immigrants as a whole.
Today, immigrants have a stronger preference for speaking of motivation in English and were less for the preservation of their native language, so the conversion to English monolingualism is faster, in most cases two generations. In this context, the English rules seem to be unnecessary, since there is no threat to go the English language by new immigrants and their language orientations.
Ironically, while have given only in English campaigns in public school children to their homes and minority languages in order to make the transition as quickly as possible to promote English, private companies tend now to some countries, both in operation for the second language as a valuable qualification that the competitiveness of a company enters the international market. It is important to note that in addition to the purely communicative, bilingualism benefits, psychological and cognitive.
In terms of social communicative competence in two languages are in a position to family communication and interaction to get between the generations, psychologically, the identity can increase the membership of a particular language and culture of the group, the bilingual, “says the self and the cohesion of families. In terms of cognitive abilities, studies have shown that young bilingual children more flexible semantics than their monolingual peers in specific tasks such as marking objects.
The results of various studies differ in some aspects of cognitive performance (eg, meta-linguistic awareness) may be temporary rather than permanent, in addition to the existing societal ambivalence about whether the effort to maintain or develop a bilingual competence is valid. This ambivalence is largely due to the fact that researchers have not controlled the effect of bilingualism in part to a complete mastery of both languages to meet.
There is evidence in research that people fully bilingual and biliterate benefit more than most bilingual people who happen to be bilingual or informally. Although there is no simple answer to this question, but there is no harm in a position to communicate with family members in their native language of a child.
