Reading Passage 1: "William Kamkwamba"


an adverse effect on a child’s mother tongue



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an adverse effect on a child’s mother tongue.
Answer:
Not Given
Part of the passage:
Research suggests
that bilingual children may also
develop more
flexibility in their thinking as a result of processing information through two different lan-
guages.
Explanation: Even though there is some information about the benefits of learning two languages, it is impossible to know whether learning the host country language AT SCHOOL can have a negative language on a child’s mother tongue.
Q 38. The Foyer program is accepted by the French education system.
Answer:
No
Part of the passage:
Within Europe, the
Foyer program
in
Belgium
, which develops
children’s speaking and literacy abilities in three languages (their mother tongue, Dutch
and French, most clearly illustrates the benefits of bilingual and trilingual education (see
Cummins, 2000).
Explanation: The keyword in the passage is the word within, meaning inside the range of (an area or boundary, therefore, the correct answer is No, as the passage says that Foyer program is accepted in Belgium.
Q 39. Bilingual children are taught to tell the time earlier than monolingual children.
Answer:
Not Given
Part of the passage:
Pupils
who know how to
tell the time
in their mother tongue under-
stand the concept of telling time. In order to tell time in the majority language, they do not
need to relearn the concept.
Explanation: The text found in the passage just states that bilingual children don’t need to relearn the concept of telling the time in the majority language if they have already
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acquired this ability in their mother tongue, and we could not find any information relating to the statement in the question that bilingual children are taught to tell the time

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