填空题 Most speakers are surprising to learn that people who 1._____
speak only one language form a minority of the world's
population that most people function in two or more languages. 2._____
While few people are truly balanced bilinguals or polyglots
who feel equal comfortable with all languages, 3._____
the fact is that most of the world's population functions
in more than language. Given this, it's somewhat surprising 4._____
that so much attention is paid to the English-speaking world
to the matter of learning a additional language. If so many 5._____
people seem to do it so easily, then just what is the problem?
The simplest answer is that there really isn't one.
Giving ample opportunity and time, most people can learn as 6._____
many languages as they want or need to. But as teachers
charged with the responsibility of adding English to the
linguistic inventory of non-English-speaking children, we
must be concerned precisely these matters—providing ample 7._____
and effective opportunity and using time as effectively as possible.
This chapter will look briefly how children become bilingual. 8._____
First, we'll examine the conditions lead to bilingualism 9._____
in preschoolers, then we'll turn our attention to language
learning in the classroom. In focusing on the differences between
language acquisition at home and at school, we'll see that there's
the potential for conflict from children's informal language 10._____
learning in the home and the more formal experience of the school.