Bilingualism and Language Learning Behavior of ESL Learners

Present study aims at investigating role of bilingualism in terms of learning behavior of bilingual students in the setting of multilingual society of Pakistan. Bilingual population can be expected in any region where different language groups are dwelling and interacting mutually. When in Pakistan, the individual and the societal bilingualism are common. In present study the term bilingualism can be referred in a wider sense in terms of a multilingual society. The study results exhibited that pragmatic side of bilinguals in understanding different situations is quite stronger than that of monolinguals; where role of L1 (mother tongue) is positive in learning L2 and vice versa because it has relations with positive outcomes in cognitive behavior