Playing with Languages

Playing with Languages

Author: Amy L. Paugh

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2012-09-01

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0857457616

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Over several generations villagers of Dominica have been shifting from Patwa, an Afro-French creole, to English, the official language. Despite government efforts at Patwa revitalization and cultural heritage tourism, rural caregivers and teachers prohibit children from speaking Patwa in their presence. Drawing on detailed ethnographic fieldwork and analysis of video-recorded social interaction in naturalistic home, school, village and urban settings, the study explores this paradox and examines the role of children and their social worlds. It offers much-needed insights into the study of language socialization, language shift and Caribbean children’s agency and social lives, contributing to the burgeoning interdisciplinary study of children’s cultures. Further, it demonstrates the critical role played by children in the transmission and transformation of linguistic practices, which ultimately may determine the fate of a language.


The 5 Love Languages of Children

The 5 Love Languages of Children

Author: Gary Chapman

Publisher: Moody Publishers

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0802479332

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Does your child speak a different language? Sometimes they wager for your attention, and other times they ignore you completely. Sometimes they are filled with gratitude and affection, and other times they seem totally indifferent. Attitude. Behavior. Development. Everything depends on the love relationship between you and your child. When children feel loved, they do their best. But how can you make sure your child feels loved? Since 1992, Dr. Gary Chapman's best-selling book The 5Love Languages has helped millions of couples develop stronger, more fulfilling relationships by teaching them to speak each others' love language. Each child, too, expresses and receives love through one of five different communication styles. And your love language may be totally different from that of your child. While you are doing all you can to show your child love, he may be hearing it as something completely opposite. Discover your child's primary language and learn what you can do to effectively convey unconditional feelings of respect, affection, and commitment that will resonate in your child's emotions and behavior.


Children Learning Second Languages

Children Learning Second Languages

Author: Annamaria Pinter

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-03-29

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0230302297

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This comprehensive guide to research and debate centres around language learning in childhood, the age factor and the different contexts where language learning happens, including home and school contexts. The scope is wide, capturing examples of studies with different age groups, different methodological approaches and different languages.


Teaching Languages to Young Learners

Teaching Languages to Young Learners

Author: Lynne Cameron

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-03-15

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 0521773253

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This book will develop readers' understanding of children are being taught a foreign language.


One Child, Two Languages

One Child, Two Languages

Author: Patton O. Tabors

Publisher: Brookes Publishing Company

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13:

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Practical, engaging guide to helping early childhood educators understand and address the needs of English language learners.


Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition

Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition

Author: Caroline F. Rowland

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2020-09-15

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9027261008

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In recent years the field has seen an increasing realisation that the full complexity of language acquisition demands theories that (a) explain how children integrate information from multiple sources in the environment, (b) build linguistic representations at a number of different levels, and (c) learn how to combine these representations in order to communicate effectively. These new findings have stimulated new theoretical perspectives that are more centered on explaining learning as a complex dynamic interaction between the child and her environment. This book is the first attempt to bring some of these new perspectives together in one place. It is a collection of essays written by a group of researchers who all take an approach centered on child-environment interaction, and all of whom have been influenced by the work of Elena Lieven, to whom this collection is dedicated.


Family Language Learning

Family Language Learning

Author: Christine Jernigan

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1783092807

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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.


Growing up with Three Languages

Growing up with Three Languages

Author: Xiao-lei Wang

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2008-11-06

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1847695671

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This book is based on an eleven-year observation of two children who were simultaneously exposed to three languages from birth. It tells the story of two parents from different cultural, linguistic, and ethnic-racial backgrounds who joined to raise their two children with their heritage languages outside their native countries. It also tells the children’s story and the way they negotiated three cultures and languages and developed a trilingual identity. It sheds light on how parental support contributed to the children’s simultaneous acquisition of three languages in an environment where the main input of the two heritage languages came respectively from the father and from the mother. It addresses the challenges and the unique language developmental characteristics of the two children during their trilingual acquisition process.


The Book of Languages

The Book of Languages

Author: Mick Webb

Publisher: Owlkids

Published: 2015-04-14

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781771471558

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"Take a tour of 21 of the world's most commonly spoken languages!"--Back cover.


Spotlight on Young Children

Spotlight on Young Children

Author: Meghan Dombrink-Green

Publisher: Spotlight on Young Children

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9781938113130

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Offers practical ways to support young dual language learners and their families. Addresses communicating, using technology, pairing children, and more.