Yeap! I definitely agree that aside from family or the caretakers who regularly communicate with the children, the social environment also plays an important role in the development of language. This journal posted by Kalyani K. Sampath, saying that in India the people are monolingual. However, with a population of more than 1,027 million India is a colourful canvas portraying a unique assimilation of ethnic groups displaying varied cultures and religions. There are Malayalees, Punjabis, Gujaratis, Tamilians and other Indian communities who speak different kinds of Indian languages such as Punjabi, Gujarati, Bengali, Urdu and Hindi, or Malayalam. So by hook or by crook they MUST learn the second language in order the communicate even among themselves. If we watch any of their Award on air we can see that the language use is English because 'yeevvveerryybboodyy could understandid!!'(*READ IN INDIAN SLANGA*)
