Author(s)

Haiyu Ning

Corresponding Author

Haiyu Ning

ABSTRACT

Bilingual education is the field of bilingual acquisition, centered on language use or language awareness development. This paper aims to review the influence of the home language environment on preschool children’s bilingual education. In this review, previous studies are utilized to respectively analyze subjective and objective factors, such as family socioeconomic status, parental education, and age structure, etc. Through analysis, it has been found that family socioeconomic status and parental education are mostly positively correlated with children’s bilingualism, while age structure is always negatively correlated with bilingualism. Greater investment (e.g. finance, time) and monitoring of bilingual learning for children can also promote their bilingual competences when objective conditions (e.g. socioeconomic, age, parental education) are limited.

KEYWORDS

Home Language Environment, Preschool Children, Second Language Acquisition