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Circle the correct answer, and provide a sentence or two explaining why the correct answer is correct.

Austin, a monolingual English speaker, moves to Portugal and begins to learn Portuguese for work. Though he spends a lot of time learning his new language, he doesn't feel pressureed to lose his English as there are many in his community that speak English as well. What term best describes Austin's language context:

a) Diglossia without bilingualism

b) Additive bilingualism

c) Subtractive bilingualism

Explanation / Answer

Ans b) Additive Bilingualism

Bilingualism is never subtractive or detrimental , it is always additive. A bilingual brain is better than that of monolingual brain in cognition. Since Austin now practices two languages English and Portuguese simulataneously , he is now considered as bilingual.

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