In her paper “Sometimes I’ll start a sentence in Spanish Y TERMINO EN ESPAÑOL,” Shana Poplack notes that people with this trait would code-switch mid-sentence, while others would code-switch between sentences. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this specific trait defined by having roughly equal competence in an L1 and L2.
ANSWER: balanced bilingualism [prompt on bilingualism]
[10h] Jim Cummins proposed this hypothesis about second language acquisition, which holds that learners who are more proficient at their first language will manifest that proficiency more quickly in a second language.
ANSWER: interdependence hypothesis
[10e] True balanced bilingualism is very rare, and is most likely to happen if a child learns both languages during this period of increased ability to learn a new language.
ANSWER: critical period
<Conor Thompson, Social Science>