セミリンガル

noun, noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'

semilingual; semilingualism; distractive bilingualism

A technical term in linguistics and education for a person who has not developed full proficiency in any language, often due to incomplete acquisition of a first language before intensive exposure to a second. Used as a noun or with の to modify another noun.

• セミリンガルの子こどもは、どの言げん語ごでも複ふく雑ざつな思し考こうを表ひょう現げんするのが難むずかしいとされる。

  Semilingual children are said to have difficulty expressing complex thoughts in any language.

• この論ろん文ぶんではセミリンガル現げん象しょうについて詳くわしく分ぶん析せきしている。

  This paper analyzes the phenomenon of semilingualism in detail.