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Publication details [#65236]

Tytus, Agnieszka Ewa. 2018. Rising to the bilingual challenge: self-reported experiences of managing life with two languages. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 21 (2) : 207–221.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | code-switching | cognition | language use | speaker

Language as a subject

English | German

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study explores how bilingual German–English speaking survey partakers manage life with two languages and whether they discern any cognitive, social or economic profits or drawbacks of knowing two languages. All partakers assent that the positive facets of being bilingual vastly exceed the negatives.