Why Study Bilingualism/Multilingualism in India?

Setting the Context

Research Background

Why India?

Bilingualism (ability to speak two languages) and Multilingualism (ability to speak more than two languages) are the norm in India with more than one thousand indigenous languages belonging to four major language families. Of those, the Indo-Aryan and the Dravidian families include languages spoken...

Project Objectives and Outcomes

To gain an authentic understanding of our primary question, " Why do some children in India not benefit from being multilingual or bilingual to the same degree as children in other ESL/EFL contexts ?”, this project also addresses the following research questions: Is there a relationship between...