Concept of Bilingualism Concepts
Bilingualism restricted to nearly every country, which has two or more language in their society. Beside English as the International language every country has mother
language. According to Mackey in Romaine 1995:12 bilingualism is defined as the
alternate use of two more languages. Whereas, Diebold in Romaine 1995:11 uses the terms ‘incipient languages’ to characterized the initial stages of contact between two
languages. Fishman says that bilingualism is essentially characterization of individual linguistic versatility Fishman 1972:83. Bloomfield specifies ‘native-like control of
two languages’ as the criteria for bilingualism in Romaine 1995:11 Although in bilingualism the two languages can be kept separately, but switching
code from one to the other language often occurs in a bilingual, because the ability to use two languages often make the bilinguals switch their languages. Here term
bilingualism is used as the alternate use of two languages that may cause the occurrence of code switching of the bilinguals from one code to the other in their daily interactions.
The bilinguals are productive in using both languages, Indonesian and English, particularly.