Abstract
Academic language is closely related to children's future academic achievements. This study focuses on the developme nt of Chinese children's academic language, explores the influence of multilingual environment on academic language, and reveals the essence of early Chinese children's academic language acquisition. Research tested total of 406 preschool children in Shanghai for their Chinese, English and academic language abilities. Regression model is established and through statistics and analysis, it is found that vocabulary functions as academic language which increases with children's age. Multilingual environment is conducive to the development of academic language and vocabulary is an important factor. The research suggests that early children should be exposed to bilingual environment to increase their bilingualism, and they promote their academic language by reading bilingual knowledge picture books and watching bilingual popular science documentaries.
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