Abstract:
This work aims to investigate the theories behind child language learning and teaching. The main focus of this work is to discuss whether it is a good idea to enable children to be grown up as bilinguals before the age of puberty or is it better to teach as soon as they have acquired their mother tongue. The results of this investigation work indicate that learning a foreign language seems better when learned at earlier age. The results prove most agreed view by majority of the researchers such as Lightbown and Spada who confirms that language learning at early age is better for child language acquisition. We also came to conclusion that even if children may have some trial difficulties in switching from one to another language, in general, the advantages of learning more languages at the earlier age outweigh its disadvantages.
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