Bilingual Learners, Bilingual Brains: Language Acquisition Patterns in Different Types of Learners

People learn English at different ages, with different reasons and motivations for learning, and with different language and educational backgrounds.

We talk about how these factors, and others, can influence how people learn English. We talked about what the research says about this, and what that could mean for people teaching learners in different contexts.

This is a recording of a Facebook Live session presented, on Wednesday 22nd May 2019, from the Cambridge English Teaching Facebook page.

For those wanting to read about this topic, Britiga Seguis has suggested these books:

Grosjean, F., & Li, P. (2012). The psycholinguistics of bilingualism. John Wiley & Sons.

Myers-Scotton, C. (2006). Multiple voices: An introduction to bilingualism.

And this one for more advanced and technical reading:

Schwieter, J. W. (Ed.). (2015). The Cambridge handbook of bilingual processing. Cambridge University Press.