Multilingualism Literature Review

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1. Goral, Mira, and Peggy S. Conner. “Language Disorders in Multilingual and Multicultural Populations.” Annual review of applied linguistics 33 (2013): 128–161. PMC. Web. 16 Feb. 2017.
Summary: This article is good about summarizing the definition multilingualism in their paper, language disorders, and how language disorders are assessed and treated. According to Goral and Conner, “the term multilinguals to refer to individuals who use more than one language... we do not constrain the term multilinguals to those individuals who have high and comparable proficiency in both (or all) their languages; rather, all individuals whose proficiency level allows them to use the language in communicative situations are considered multilinguals”. What …show more content…
ish Speech and Hearing Sciences. Goral is now a professor at Lehman college in Bronx, NY. Peggy S. Conner is an assistant professor at the Lehman College and Conner received her Ph.D. at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, M.S at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a B.S at Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY. Both of the Authors have a strong academic background in language and disorders and they have written publications together before. They cite many legitimate studies and they represent the other side in their article.
Reflection: This article is a great place to start because it covers many topics considered with multilingualism and language disorders. I will use a lot of information to build a platform to give my paper its meet. The authors also quote many other sources from studies to support their claims. For each of the problems approached in the article, the authors provided the different ways to solve the problem. The only problem I could have with the article, as far as content goes, is it contains a lot of information and there is a possibility that it can be too …show more content…
She goes on to tell her audience about how bilingualism is not studied well enough in children with language and speech and language disorders. Öztürk points out that there are several problems in finding materials and therapist that are able to help children across both languages. The author argues that treating a bilingual child in just one language creates a monolingual with the same disorder as
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