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 Handbook of Bilingualism
The Handbook of Bilingualism

Author: Tej K. Bhatia

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2006-01-23

Total Pages: 910

ISBN-13: 9780631227359

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This handbook provides state-of-the-art treatments of the central issues that arise from the study of the phenomena of bilingualism. It explores topics ranging from the bilingual brain to bilingual education.

The Development of Language
The Development of Language

Author: Martyn Barrett

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2016-01-28

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1317715276

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This book presents a general overview of our current knowledge of language development in children. All the principal strands of language development are covered, including phonological, lexical, syntactic and pragmatic development; bilingualism; precursors to language development in infancy; and the language development of children with developmental disabilities, including children with specific language impairment. Written by leading international authorities, each chapter summarises clearly and lucidly our current state of knowledge, and carefully explains and evaluates the theories which have been proposed to account for children's development in that area.

Perspectives on Input, Evidence, and Exposure in Language Acquisition
Perspectives on Input, Evidence, and Exposure in Language Acquisition

Author: Lindsay Hracs

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2024-09-15

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 9027246866

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Emphasizing the necessity for theory-driven language acquisition research, the studies in this collection aim to formalize the kinds of information available to first and second language learners, as well as to shed light on how that information is used to solve a variety of learning problems. The volume pays homage to the scholarly contributions of Susanne E. Carroll, delving into the impact she has had on the field of language acquisition. The central themes of input, evidence, and exposure – found throughout Carroll’s work ­– are explored in this volume. The contributions cover a range of topics such as the emergence of linguistic theorizing in language acquisition research, the acquisition of grammatical gender, classroom language learning, learning on first exposure, asymmetries between developmental trajectories in first and second language acquisition, and the effects of grammatical complexity on language development.

Educating Second Language Children
Educating Second Language Children

Author: Fred Genesee

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994-03-25

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0521457971

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This text brings together the work of 15 elementary education experts who support an integrative approach to educating second language children. The paperback edition is a collection of articles from fourteen elementary education experts who espouse an integrative approach to second language education - one that goes beyond language teaching methodology - to cover a wide range of issues affecting the academic and social success of language minority children. The volume deals not only with second language development, but with the development of the whole child. Rather than focusing on language instruction, it addresses the entire curriculum, and instead of restricting itself to classroom learning, it examines the role of the school, family, and community.

Language Development In Exceptional Circumstances
Language Development In Exceptional Circumstances

Author: Dorothy Bishop

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 113506461X

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Ever since attempts were made to describe and explain normal language development, references to exceptional circumstances have been made. Variations in the conditions under which language is acquired can be regarded as natural experiments, which would not be feasible or ethical under normal circumstances. This can throw light on such questions as: *What language input is necessary for the child to learn language? *What is the relationship between cognition and language? *How independent are different components of language function? *Are there critical periods for language development? *Can we specify necessary and sufficient conditions for language impairment? This book covers a range of exceptional circumstances including: extreme deprivation, twinship, visual and auditory impairments, autism and focal brain damage? Written in a jargon-free style, and including a glossary of linguistic and medical terminology, the book assumes little specialist knowledge. This text is suitable for both students and practitioners in the fields of psycholinguistics, developmental and educational psychology, speech pathology, paediatrics and special education.

Infant Speech
Infant Speech

Author: M.M. Lewis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-05

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1136315608

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This is Volume XV of a series of thirty-two on Developmental Psychology. Originally published in 1936, this study looks at when speech begins in children. The sounds that a child makes during his first few months are so elusive and apparently so remote from anything that might be called language that any observer however interested in speech might well be pardoned for waiting until the noises become, at any rate, a little more obviously human. To persist in making observations one must be interested in the variety of human sounds merely as sounds, one must have faith in the continuity of growth, and in addition, perhaps, one must have something of that insensitiveness to ridicule which is found at its highest in the truly devoted parent.