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.

Las lenguas en la Europa Comunitaria II

Las lenguas en la Europa Comunitaria II
Author: Mercè Pujol Berché
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1996
Genre: Europe
ISBN: 9789051839654

En el presente volumen -- último de los cuatro que forman las actas del II Coloquio Internacional Las Lenguas en la Europa Comunitaria, celebrado en Barcelona del 2 al 5 de noviembre de 1994 --, se ofrece de forma independiente el conjunto de estudios presentados dentro de la sección «Traducción». El objetivo general, como en el coloquio anterior, fue el deseo de examinar la situación de la traductología y la traducción como entidades autónomas y a la vez en su contexto europeo (tema de este volumen), así como las tendencias actuales de las diferentes lenguas de/en Europa, tanto desde el punto de vista de su adquisición, de su enseñanza y de su utilización. Así en este volumen se pone de relieve la importancia cada día mayor de la traducción tanto desde el campo de la aplicación como desde su lado científico.

Early Trilingualism

Early Trilingualism
Author: Julia D. Barnes
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2006-01-10
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1788920260

The book describes how a trilingual child in the Basque Country, where Spanish and Basque are the languages of the community, is able to successfully acquire English at home through interaction with her mother. It focuses on her acquisition of the form and function of English questions.

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.

ITL.

ITL.
Author: Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven. Instituut voor Toegepaste Linguīstik
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2000
Genre: Applied linguistics
ISBN: