Bilingualism Across the Lifespan

Bilingualism Across the Lifespan
Author: Elena Nicoladis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2016-06-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110341247

This book pioneers the study of bilingualism across the lifespan and in all its diverse forms. In framing the newest research within a lifespan perspective, the editors highlight the importance of considering an individual's age in researching how bilingualism affects language acquisition and cognitive development. A key theme is the variability among bilinguals, which may be due to a host of individual and sociocultural factors, including the degree to which bilingualism is valued within a particular context.Thus, this book is a call for language researchers, psychologists, and educators to pursue a better understanding of bilingualism in our increasingly global society.

Language and Literacy in Bilingual Children

Language and Literacy in Bilingual Children
Author: D. Kimbrough Oller
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2002-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781853595707

This book sets a high standard for rigor and scientific approach to the study of bilingualism and provides new insights regarding the critical issues of theory and practice, including the interdependence of linguistic knowledge in bilinguals, the role of socioeconomic status, the effect of different language usage patterns in the home, and the role of schooling by single-language immersion as opposed to systematic training in both home and target languages. The rich landscape of outcomes reported in the volume will provide a frame for interpretation and understanding of effects of bilingualism for years to come.

Bilingual Siblings

Bilingual Siblings
Author: Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2011-01-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1847694926

How do bilingual brothers and sisters talk to each other? Sibling language use is an uncharted area in studies of bilingualism. From a perspective of independent researcher and parent of three bilingual children Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert discusses the issues of a growing bilingual or multilingual family. What happens when there are two or more children at different stages of language development? Do all the siblings speak the same languages? Which language(s) do the siblings prefer to speak together? Could one child refuse to speak one language while another child is fluently bilingual? How do the factors of birth order, personality or family size interact in language production? With data from over 100 international families this book investigates the reality of family life with two or more children and languages.

Bringing Up a Bilingual Child

Bringing Up a Bilingual Child
Author: Rita Rosenback
Publisher: Filament Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2014-06-10
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781910125243

'Bringing up a Bilingual Child' is aimed at (existing or soon-to-be) parents in families where more than one language is spoken, as well as anyone in the extended circle of family and friend of such multilingual families, as well as for anyone coming into contact with them. The aim of the book is to help multilingual families to create a supportive environment for children in which they naturally grow up to speak more than one language. The intention is to give you an easy-to-read-and-use guide to multilingual parenting, providing motivation, ideas, advice and answers to any questions parents may have.

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.

Language and Literacy Development in Bilingual Settings

Language and Literacy Development in Bilingual Settings
Author: Aydin Yücesan Durgunoglu
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2011-03-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1606239554

Grounded in state-of-the-art research, this book explores how English language learners develop both the oral language and literacy skills necessary for school success. Chapters examine the cognitive bases of English acquisition, and how the process is different for children from alphabetic (such as Spanish) and nonalphabetic (such as Chinese) language backgrounds. The book addresses a key challenge facing educators and clinicians: identifying students whose poor English skills may indicate an underlying impairment, as opposed to still-developing language proficiency. Implications for diagnosis, intervention, and instruction are highlighted throughout.

Childhood Bilingualism

Childhood Bilingualism
Author: Peggy D. McCardle
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1853598690

This book contains reports of research on bilingualism in infants and children as well as perspectives from those involved in cross-linguistic research on language development, literacy development in bilingual children, and psycholinguistic research on bilingualism in adults. It offers a fresh multidisciplinary perspective and next steps for research on childhood bilingualism.

Bilingual Development in Childhood

Bilingual Development in Childhood
Author: Annick De Houwer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2021-05-13
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1108853838

In the first decade of life, children become bilingual in different language learning environments. Many children start learning two languages from birth (Bilingual First Language Acquisition). In early childhood hitherto monolingual children start hearing a second language through daycare or preschool (Early Second Language Acquisition). Yet other hitherto monolingual children in middle childhood may acquire a second language only after entering school (Second Language Acquisition). This Element explains how these different language learning settings dynamically affect bilingual children's language learning trajectories. All children eventually learn to speak the societal language, but they often do not learn to fluently speak their non-societal language and may even stop speaking it. Children's and families' harmonious bilingualism is threatened if bilingual children do not develop high proficiency in both languages. Educational institutions and parental conversational practices play a pivotal role in supporting harmonious bilingual development.

Bilingual Language Development & Disorders in Spanish-English Speakers

Bilingual Language Development & Disorders in Spanish-English Speakers
Author: Brian Goldstein
Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781598571714

The revised edition of this comprehensive graduate-level text gives SLPs the most current information on language development and disorders of Spanish-English bilingual children. Includes 5 new chapters on literacy and other hot topics.;

Bilingual Language Acquisition

Bilingual Language Acquisition
Author: Carmen Silva-Corvalán
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2014-02-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1107729211

How do children develop bilingual competence? Do bilingual children develop language in the same way as monolinguals? Set in the context of findings on language development, this book examines the acquisition of English and Spanish by two brothers in the first six years of their lives. Based on in-depth and meticulous analyses of naturalistic data, it explores how the systems of both languages affect each other as the children develop, and how different levels of exposure to each language influence the nature of acquisition. The author demonstrates that the children's grammars and lexicons follow a developmental path similar to that of monolinguals, but that cross-linguistic interactions affecting lexical, semantic and discourse-pragmatic aspects arise in Spanish when exposure to it diminishes around the age of four. The first of its kind, this original study is a must-read for students and researchers in bilingualism, child development, language acquisition and language contact.