Genglish Parenting

Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Anglistik - Linguistik Note: 10 Universität Regensburg (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik) Veranstaltung: - Sprache: Deutsch Abstract: First of all a general overview about the theoretical background of bilingualism will be given. Important sub items of this chapter will be the current status of research the ways in which bilinguals can be categorized the 'one person - one language principle' and interferences and code-mixing as important components of bilingualism. In the next chapter the case study will be presented. Here the aims methodology and materials of the study will be described. Subsequently the results of the case study will be brought into relation with the underlying linguistic theory. At the end of the paper the four questions will be answered and further implications of bilingual language acquisition will be made.