According to the article, what is perceptual narrowing? Around what month(s) would an infant begin narrowing non-native speech sounds?

Perceptual narrowing defines as an evolving process during which the environmental experiences are used by the brain to form perceptual skills. The process develops the perceptions of things that frequently experienced by an individual and triggers them to have a failure within the capability to perceive certain things to which they are not frequently exposed. An infant would begin to exhibit a perceptual narrowing in the first year of their life by presenting growing compassion to native speech sounds and narrowing non-native speech sounds (Garcia-Sierra, et al., 2011).
Q2. Do you believe that infants/children can truly be equally exposed to two languages at a time? Why or why not? What are some ways infants can be exposed to language in a bilingual home setting?

Yes, infants could equally exposed to two languages at a time. The reason is due to at birth, the brain of a baby has an exceptional gift that able the baby to tell the difference between 800 various sounds. It describes that at this phase, infants are able to learn any type of language that they are exposed to. For this reason, it is obvious if we say that infants or children could be truly equally exposed to two languages at a time. Infants who get their two languages at the same time are quite rarer than bilingual children who get their languages continuously (Byers-Heinlein & Lew-Williams, 2013). To expose to language in a bilingual home setting, parents could:

· Use a different language to communicate with the children (for instance, the father uses English and the mother uses Germany)

·  Both parents use only one language and other family members could use another language to communicate with the infants (Byers-Heinlein & Lew-Williams, 2013).
Q3. As a teacher how can you support a bilingual infant/child in the classroom? 

As a teacher, I would give more attention to the first language of the students in schools. Even though it is significant to progress excellence skills in the language of schooling, the significance of first languages in school cannot be highlighted adequately. By using the first languages as resources in teaching not only would help the child to improve the abilities in both languages, but also would able to motivate them to get deeper and complete understanding of the content, and get the most out of both learning and achievement. In addition to this, by acknowledging the languages of children and emphasizing the value of bilingualism as an essential linguistic and academic achievement, as a teacher, I believe I would able to help children in maintaining their first languages while not removing their second language (Sjöblom, 2017).

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