A Study on the Communication Strategies of Bilingual Children

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10.2991/978-2-494069-27-5_41How to use a DOI?

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Bilingual children; Communication strategy; Mandarin children; Contrast

Abstract

Through the task of picture description, the performance of 3–4 years old Cantonese - Putonghua bilingual Child B and mandarin Child A on information points were compared. The results showed that there was no significant difference in the number of language points between two languages, and there was no significant difference in the number of description language points between Child B’s first language and second language. Moreover, the second language learning strategy of child was not completely different from the first language. Child B’s communication strategies were influenced by his language level. When his language level was low, he was inclined to use native-based communication strategies, especially code-switching and reduction strategy. With the improvement of his language level, the frequency of code-switching decreased, and recall strategy was less used.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Huomei Yang
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/10
TI  - A Study on the Communication Strategies of Bilingual Children
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture Studies (ICLCCS 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 379
EP  - 386
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-27-5_41
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-27-5_41
ID  - Yang2022
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