Multilingualism: A focus on children

Abstract

Multilingualism is a growing phenomenon of importance due to the development of globalisation during the centuries, provoking that many languages are exposed to people in today’s different communities. Therefore, this human capacity is increasingly recognized and valuable due to its many advantages. Thus, investigating it and the many factors that lead to multilingualism is crucial to better understand nowadays realities in many countries. Children are key in this paper as they are considered the promoters of this phenomenon. Studies on their many aspects from psycholinguistic to social are highlighted in this paper, together with an emphasis on several myths and advantages following with pedagogical implications to improve today’s realities in English classrooms. Final conclusions will be obtained at the end of the paper regarding all this aspects.