A recent major impact on languages in the world has been the use of the Internet. While there is much use of the Internet in English, other languages have grown in recent years. There is now information and exchanges in many of the world's languages. How do such rapid changes in technology and communication affect children's bilingualism?

Cyberspace has been dominated by the English language and a major anxiety of other majority languages and of minority languages is the extra emphasis, value and function given to English by the Internet. However, as more businesses begin to advertise using web pages, regional networks have developed using local languages on the Internet. Also, as schools, colleges, universities, local government, libraries, record offices and local information agencies go on-line, their local pages are often in the regional language or are bilingual. Thus, whereas the World Wide Web was initially heavily dominated by the English language, other languages have increasingly grown in their use of this new millennium tool of communication.

Non English speakers have been the fastest growing group of new Internet users, many using the Internet bilingually or multilingually. Remember too that there are a whole host of computer applications available in Welsh - you'll find all the information on this website.