Many parents will fear their children would get confused between two languages. Code-mixing normally happens in both young children and adults who are bilingual. They will mix between two languages in one sentence. Code- mixing is not a sign that shows children are confused in learning two languages (Brown, 2014). Research showed the code-mixing language and early language development are not related (Place & Hoff, 2011). Some studies showed young children understand code- mixing sentences and show the same processing patterns as bilingual adults (Byers-Heinlein & Lew-Williams, 2013). Code-mixing happens with young children because children are doing what they hear adults around them do, and young bilingual children have limited vocabularies.
