Preschoolers’ Code-switching in Bilingual Settings. An Indicator of Language Dominance or a Gap in Knowledge?

Code – switching is a widespread phenomenon among bilingual children of all age. A bilingual child is considered as a child with a good command of two languages at the same time and speaking them without thinking too much. A multilingual child is also considered to have native – like fluency in more than two languages. With bilingualism on the grow, other linguistic phenomena have also appeared which need to be thoroughly analyzed. Other than mixing two languages incorrectly in some situations instead of having a relative dominance over them, there is also the correct use of code – switching (CS) among the learned languages. This common linguistic phenomenon is going to be discussed in details in the present study.

کلیدواژه ها:

Bilingual Preschoolers ، Code-switching ، Language Dominance