“Exploring Bilingualism: Its Development, Use and Effects”

Whether so stated or not, the goal of foreign language instruction is to promote bilingual and bicultural abilities. Developing such abilities, however, involves more than knowledge and skills, but also appropriate attitudes and self-awareness. Because of its complexity, unfortunately, bilingualism is often not well understood by language teachers or even by bilingual speakers themselves. This workshop explores its multiple aspects --types and profiles of bilingual behavior, diverse patterns of bilingual development, and dual language use.