Suppose That You Have a Summer Job in Which You

question 34

Multiple Choice

Suppose that you have a summer job in which you work with both monolingual and bilingual children,although the two groups are otherwise similar.You would expect to find that

• A)the monolingual children would typically be better at following directions.
• B)the bilingual children would learn the pragmatics of only one language,so if English is their second language,they would be likely to make pragmatic errors.
• C)the bilingual children would usually be better at following complex instructions.
• D)the bilingual children would generally perform better at all language tasks except for tasks requiring metalinguistic expertise.

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