equilingualism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "All investigators agree that bilingualism is not equilingualism."
- "But considering the potential role of theory in informing and guiding practice, the real point of interest is whether equilingualism is desirable as a goal in second language learning and teaching."
- "It is shown that equilingualisms, native competence in each of a bilingual's languages, is common when the languages are acquired in childhood but cannot generally be obtained after puberty."
- "Equilingualism is fair because it tends to even out the advantages and disadvantages of being English- or French-speaking, with minorities of each language being in comparable positions."
- "Between these minimalist and maximalist criteria for bilingualism lie a whole range of possible definitions, and various authors have situated their requirements at intervals along a proficiency continuum, from ambilingualism, equilingualism, and diglossia to semilingualism (see below)."