ANALYSING THE FORMATION OF LANGUAGE COMPETENCIES IN ARTIFICIAL BILINGUALISM

Abstract

The article is dedicated to analysis of the formation of linguistic competence (phonetic, lexical, grammatical, semantic) in artificial bilingualism. The research material is bilingual speech activity of children who learn Russian and English from birth in a monoethnic family. The authors studied the characteristic features of the development of a bilingual child’s vocabulary, taking into account four language competencies. Conducting a detailed analysis of the declared competencies of a bilingual child, the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the bilingual’s dictionary under three years, speaking Russian and English, are revealed. There is also a tendency to influence the volume of a child’s vocabulary on the peculiarities of language competence formation.