In the field of passive fluency, commonly known as passive bilingualism, Franois Grosjean, a French psycholinguist, argues that there has been a monolingual bias regarding who is considered a 'bilingual', where people who do not have equal competence in all their languages are judges not speaking properly.
A more common term for this phenomenon is 'passive bilingualism'. Grosjean argues that there has been a monolingual bias regarding who is considered a 'bilingual', where people who do not have equal competence in all their languages are judges not speaking properly. Francois Grosjean is a Professor Emeritus and former Director of the Language and Speech Processing Laboratory at the University of Neuchatel (Switzerland). His specialty is psycholinguistics and his domains of interest are the perception, comprehension and production of language, be it speech or sign language, in monolinguals and bilinguals. 
