Abstracts
Résumé
Le développement bilingue harmonieux (DBE) caractérise les familles où le bien-être n’est pas altéré par la situation linguistique. Le lien entre la compétence linguistique des enfants, le bien-être et le rôle des efforts parentaux et scolaires dans le Comportement Social et Affectif (CSA) a été sondé, cependant, l’étude du DBE doit être approfondie en raison des expériences bilingues uniques. Notre étude explore les attitudes linguistiques des enfants et leurs CSA avec des données parentales et enfantines. Trente-sept enfants bilingues russe-français de 5 ans ont indiqué leurs attitudes linguistiques et les parents ont jugé le CSA des enfants. Les analyses comportent des corrélations et une régression logistique ordinale qui montrent que le bien-être et les sentiments positifs à l’égard des langues sont liés. Les enfants favorisant de manière égale les deux langues se sentent plus compétents dans les deux, montrent davantage de compétences prosociales positives et des scores de difficultés comportementales réduits.
Mots-clés :
- développement bilingue harmonieux,
- bilinguisme précoce,
- attitudes langagières,
- comportement social et affectif,
- enfants franco-russes
Abstract
Harmonious bilingual development (HBD) characterizes families where well-being isn’t affected by the linguistic situation. Several studies examined the relation between children’s language proficiency and well-being, along with the role of the efforts towards dual language acquisition made by parents and schools for the development of socialemotional and behavioral skills (SEBS). However, HBD requires further exploration due to the unique bilingual experiences. Our study delves into children’s language attitudes and SEBS, using both parent and child data. Thirty-seven Russian-French five-year-old bilinguals in France were interviewed regarding their attitude towards languages and their parents questioned about the children’s social and affective behavior. Data were analysed with correlations and ordinal logistic regression indicating a connection between well-being and positive language sentiments. When children equally favor both languages, they feel more capable in both, show increased positive prosocial skills and reduced behavioral difficulty scores.
Keywords:
- harmonious bilingual development,
- early bilingualism,
- language attitudes,
- social-emotional and behavioral skills,
- French-Russian children
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