Child Bilingualism and Second Language Learning

Child Bilingualism and Second Language Learning
Author: Fangfang Li
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2020-11-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027260443

This book focuses exclusively on child bilinguals or children exposed to a second language in various learning contexts. Through the presentation of research on how children learn the sound systems or lexicon in two languages and via different routes, the book aims to paint a comprehensive picture of child bilingualism and second language learning. In addition, the book features contributions focused on theoretical overviews and methodological approaches. Researchers from diverse disciplines such as linguistics, psychology, and speech-language pathology contributed to the book that thus represents an effort to integrate multiple views and perspectives. The book is useful for researchers, clinicians, and educators who work with children acquiring or learning a second language in different settings. It should also be of interest to university students studying bilingualism and/or second language acquisition or parents raising bilingual children.

Dual Language Development & Disorders: A Handbook on Bilingualism and Second Language Learning

Dual Language Development & Disorders: A Handbook on Bilingualism and Second Language Learning
Author: JOHANNE. GENESEE PARADIS (FRED. CRAGO, MARTHA.)
Publisher: CLI
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781681254067

Updated with the latest research, this third edition of the bestselling textbook prepares SLPs and educators to support young children who are dual language learners and make informed decisions about assessment and intervention when a disorder is present.

Dual Language Development and Disorders

Dual Language Development and Disorders
Author: Fred Genesee
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Bilingualism in children
ISBN: 9781557666864

This book explains normal and impaired dual language development and the differences between monolingual and dual language development so that professionals can understand these differences and successfully diagnose and treat dual language children with language delays and disorders. The book divides dual language children into two types: bilingual children, who have learned two languages from infancy, and second language learners, who are learning a second language after significant progress has been made with a first language. The book also breaks dual language learners into two types according to whether or not their primary language is widely used, has a high social value, and is typically associated with socioeconomic power. Case studies of four children representing each of these four groups are introduced in Chapter 1 and reoccur throughout the book. The final section of the book discusses assessment and intervention issues related to dual language children with impaired development.

Language Processing in Bilingual Children

Language Processing in Bilingual Children
Author: Ellen Bialystok
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1991-05-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780521379182

A collection of papers that explore bilingual children coping with two language systems.

Language Interpretation and Communication

Language Interpretation and Communication
Author: D. Gerver
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2013-03-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1461590779

Language Interpretation and Communication: a NATO Symposium, was a multi-disciplinary meeting held from September 26 to October 1st 1977 at the Giorgio Cini Foundation on the Isle of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. The Symposium explored both applied and theoretical aspects of conference interpre tation and of sign language interpretation. The Symposium was sponsored by the Scientific Affairs Division of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, and we would like to express our thanks to Dr. B. A. Bayrakter of the Scientific Affairs Division and to the Members of the NATO Special Programme Panel on Human Factors for their support. We would also like to thank Dr. F. Benvenutti and his colleagues at the University of Venice for their generous provision of facilities and hospitality for the opening session of the Symposium. Our thanks are also due to Dr. Ernesto Talentino and his colleagues at the Giorgio Cini Foundation who provided such excellent conference facilities and thus helped ensure the success of the meeting. Finally, we would like to express our appreciation and thanks to Becky Graham and Carol Blair for their invaluable contributions to the organization of the Symposium, to Ida Stevenson who prepared these proceedings for publication, and to Donald I. MacLeod who assisted with the final preparation of the manuscript.

Family Language Learning

Family Language Learning
Author: Christine Jernigan
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2015
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1783092807

Family Language Learning is a practical guide designed to support, advise and encourage any parents who are hoping to raise their children bilingually. It is unique in that it focuses on parents who are not native speakers of a foreign language. It gives parents the tools they need to cultivate and nurture their own language skills while giving their children an opportunity to learn another language. The book combines cutting-edge research on language exposure with honest and often humorous stories from personal interviews with families speaking a foreign language at home. By dispelling long-held myths about how language is learned, it provides hope to parents who want to give their children bilingual childhoods, but feel they don't know where to start with learning a foreign language.

A Parents' and Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism

A Parents' and Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism
Author: Colin Baker
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2014-04-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1783091606

In this accessible guide to bilingualism in the family and the classroom, Colin Baker delivers a realistic picture of the joys and difficulties of raising bilingual children. This revised edition includes more information on bilingualism in the digital age, and incorporates the latest research in areas such as neonatal language experience, multilingualism and language mixing.

Bilingual First Language Acquisition

Bilingual First Language Acquisition
Author: Annick De Houwer
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2009-02-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1847696287

Increasingly, children grow up hearing two languages from birth. This comprehensive textbook explains how children learn to understand and speak those languages. It brings together both established knowledge and the latest findings about different areas of bilingual language development. It also includes new analyses of previously published materials. The book describes how bilingually raised children learn to understand and use sounds, words and sentences in two languages. A recurrent theme is the large degree of variation between bilingual children. This variation in how children develop bilingually reflects the variation in their language learning environments. Positive attitudes from the people in bilingual children's language learning environments and their recognition that child bilingualism is not monolingualism-times-two are the main ingredients ensuring that children grow up to be happy and expert speakers of two languages.

Verbal Processes in Children

Verbal Processes in Children
Author: Charles J. Brainerd
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1461394759

For some time now, the study of cognitive development has been far and away the most active discipline within developmental psychology. Although there would be much disagreement as to the exact proportion of papers published in developmen tal journals that could be considered cognitive, 50% seems like a conservative estimate. Hence, a series of scholarly books to be devoted to work in cognitive development is especially appropriate at this time. The Springer Series in Cognitive Development contains two basic types of books, namely, edited collections of original chapters by several authors, and original volumes written by one author or a small group of authors. The flagship for the Springer Series will be a serial publication of the "advances" type, carrying the subtitle Progress in Cognitive Development Research. Each volume in the Progress sequence will be strongly thematic, in that it will be limited to some well-defined domain of cognitive-developmental research (e. g. , logical and mathematical de velopment, semantic development). All Progress volumes will be edited collec tions. Editors of such collections, upon consultation with the Series Editor, may elect to have their books published either as contributions to the Progress sequence or as separate volumes. All books written by one author or a small group of authors will be published as separate volumes within the series. A fairly broad definition of cognitive development is being used in the selection of books for this series.

Innovative Research and Practices in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism

Innovative Research and Practices in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism
Author: John W. Schwieter
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2013-08-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027271666

This volume brings together theoretical perspectives and empirical studies in second language (L2) acquisition and bilingualism and discusses their implications for L2 pedagogy. The book is organized into three sections that focus on prominent linguistic and cognitive theories and together provide a compelling set of state-of-the-art works. Part I consists of studies that give rise to innovative applications for second language teaching and learning and Part II discusses how findings from cognitive research can inform practices for L2 teaching and learning. Following these two sections, Part III provides a summative commentary of the theories explored in the volume along with suggestions for future research directions. The book is intended to act as a valuable reference for scholars, applied linguists, specialists in pedagogy, language educators, and anyone wishing to gain an overview of current issues in SLA and bilingualism.