INTRODUCTION

 

Being bilingual can be understood as the ability of some people to adequately handle a second language other than their native language, depending on the situation or need that arises, in many cases it can be confused with being bicultural because some think that being bilingual is already bicultural, this being an erroneous reason because bicultural people have had the opportunity to live with a culture different from that of their origin, achieving that they can adapt to the management of traditions and customs of origin and of the new culture, achieving a cultural balance.

Bilingualism becomes relevant in a increasingly globalized linguistic context that demands not only the training of individuals who dominate more than one language, to successfully insert themselves into the work and social environment, but also the development of fields of knowledge involved in languafge acquisition and loss processes to understand how language learnign and use impacts the brain of bilinguals.