Abstract
The majority of the people in the world are multilingual. They use more than one language every day. Knowing more than one language or being bilingual has now become the necessity of the world. It also symbolizes many aspects of human emotions. Bilingualism and multilingualism are linguistic, psychological, and social behaviours, very complex and multidimensional. This paper focuses on the main challenges at the crossroads of bilingualism, multilingualism, and the acquisition of second languages. The development of personality may depend on the language a person speaks. It is also associated with some of the abilities of the human mind. Earlier researchers have concluded that a multilingual person has better reasoning and cognitive abilities than a normal person. A multilingual person is also a better decision-maker, and also there is less probability of being biased while making decisions. It has been also observed that control of attention and metalinguistic awareness also depend to some extent on the linguistic nature of a person. To verify those conclusions drawn from the theory or research work by some of the European researchers, primitive research work was done. A survey was done through a form to know what people think about this particular topic and whether they agree with those viewpoints or not. From the results, it can be concluded that the conclusions drawn by them are true to some extent and people also agree with those results.
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Shaw, Puneet Kumar
(2024)
"Socio-psychological perspective of multilingualism and bilingualism,"
International Journal of English Learning & Teaching Skills (IJELTS): Vol. 4:
Iss.
3, Article 8.
Available at:
https://research.smartsociety.org/ijelts/vol4/iss3/8