Mitos e concepções acerca do bilinguismo infantil: um estudo de caso de mãe peruana e filha brasileira

Abstract

There are many myths involving the acquisition of more than one language during childhood. Such misconceptions end up influencing parents' linguistic attitudes, mainly because many of them are spread by professionals. This case study has as its main objectives, therefore, to observe the influence of the myths that involve the infantile child language, an infantile linguistic attitude that does not select the use of its mother language, to identify the feeling of the daughter, already adult, in relation to make this choice and note the role of the father in this decision. For this, interviews were recorded with mother and daughter based on a script previously prepared. The results showed that the mother was influenced by the myths surrounding bilingualism in her decision not to teach her daughter her mother language; whereas the daughter questions the decision of her parent; and that the father had a negative influence on the mother's decision.