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Publisher: Odile Jacob
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Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 2738181414
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Bilingualism, Multiculturalism, and Second Language Learning
Author: Allan G. Reynolds
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2014-02-25
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1317783654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection pays tribute to Professor Wallace E. Lambert and his contributions to the fields of language and linguistics. Each chapter, written by an internationally renowned theorist or researcher, traces the currents of theory and research within the topic area to the present day, provides a state-of-the-art review of the topic, and offers an outline for future research directions. The book concludes with an overview from Professor Lambert that critically examines the impact of the ideas in each individual chapter. This volume is organized around the three areas where Professor Lambert's unique contributions are most substantial and most evident: bilingualism, multiculturalism, and second language learning. Specifically, the papers presented discuss the topics of social, psychological, cognitive, and neuropsychological aspects of bilingualism and second language learning, the psychology of inter-group relations and multiculturalism, bilingual/immersion education, and language planning. Note: Royalties earned from sales of this book will go to the Wallace E. Lambert Student Research Fund at McGill University for use by students interested in second language acquisition, bilingualism, and/or multiculturalism.
L’Enfant Haitien Et Le Bilinguisme
Author: Maryse Noël Roumain
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2013-11-11
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 1493119176
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Maryse Nol Roumain compares the genesis of Creole languages to child language while warning us against simplification views and using the modern psycholinguistic theories of language acquisition. She proceeds to explaining the acquisition of English by a child in situation of languages-in contact. She also studies school failure among Haitian children in North American schools. LEnfant Hatien Et le Bilinguisme, The Haitian Child and Bilingualism is a book for researchers, educators and parents.
Description and Measurement of Bilingualism
Author: Louis G. Kelly
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1969-12-15
Total Pages: 489
ISBN-13: 1487590768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn June 1967 the Canadian National Commission for Unesco and the Université de Moncton jointly sponsored an international seminar on bilingualism. Although 1967 was Canada's centennial year, the seminar was concerned only incidentally with bilingualism in Canada. Instead, bilingualism was considered as the essential element in communication between language irrespective of national boundaries. Participants included linguists, psychologists, and sociologists. The report shows that the interdisciplinary discussions carried on at Moncton were fruitful; that significant questions about bilingualism were raised and an improvement in communication between specialists from different traditions, languages, and cultures were effected. This volumes makes a valuable contribution toward establishing a general theory of bilingualism.
Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
Author: Hans Goebl
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 974
ISBN-13: 3110132648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProceedings of the 7th World Congress of African Linguistics, Buea, 17-21 August 2012
Author: G. Atindogbe
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2016-12-19
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 9956764868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a composite of 40 purely scientific and peer-reviewed papers presented during the Seventh World Congress of African Linguistics (WOCAL7) at the University of Buea, Cameroon, in 2012. The different chapters of the volume fall within the scope of African languages in relation to linguistics and other related disciplines, where a varied range of theoretical examinations, investigations and/or discussions as well as pure description of aspects of language are offered. For the purpose of clarity and easy accessibility of the content, the chapters are further subcategorized into nine sections, which include: Borrowing, Discourse Analysis, Historical Linguistics, Intercultural Communication, Language Documentation, Language in Education, Morpho-syntax, Phonetics and Phonology, and Sociolinguistics.
Writing and Translating for Children
Author: Elena Di Giovanni
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9789052016603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume features a variety of essays on writing for children, ranging from studies of classic authors to an analysis of the role of pictures in children's books, to an examination of comics and theatre for the young.
Forging Multilingual Spaces
Author: Christine Hélot
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1847690750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first to propose an integrated approach to the study of bilingual education in minority and majority settings. Contributions from well-known scholars working in eight different countries in Europe and the Americas show that it is possible to bridge the gap between prestigious elite bilingualism and the bilingualism of minority communities and work towards the construction of multilingual spaces.
Grammaticalization and First Language Acquisition
Author: Dominique Bassano
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Published: 2013-05-29
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9027271895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrammaticalization and lexicalization are at the heart of first language acquisition. Understanding how these processes begin and evolve is a major challenge for current theories and has implications for applications in teaching or clinical contexts. This volume examines the relative weight of cognitive and linguistic determinants of acquisition with particular attention to two questions. The first one concerns the origins of grammar and the processes underlying its development. Is grammatical knowledge innate or constructed by the child? Is it modular or does it interact with other capacities? How can we account for continuity and discontinuity in development? What is the role of input? Second, considerable variation is observed in lexical and grammatical development across child languages. Is the process of acquisition similar in all children or do language-specific factors impact its rhythm and course? Do typological factors determine children’s reliance on lexical or grammatical means of expression in some domains? Originally published in Language, Interaction and Acquisition - Langage, Interaction et Acquisition 2:1 (2011).
Sources of Variation in First Language Acquisition
Author: Maya Hickmann
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2018-02-22
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9027265321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDevelopmental research has long focused on regularities in language acquisition, minimizing factors that might be responsible for variation. Although researchers are now increasingly concerned with one or another of these factors, this volume brings together research on three different sources of variation: language-specific properties, the nature of the input to children across contexts, and several aspects of the learners themselves. Chapters explore these sources of variation within an interdisciplinary and comparative approach allying theories and methodologies stemming from linguistics, psycholinguistics, developmental psychology, and neuroscience. The comparative perspective involves different languages, contexts of use, types of learners (first/second language acquisition, monolingual/bilingual learners, autism, language impairment), as well as vocal and visuo-gestural communicative modalities (co-verbal gestures, sign language acquisition). The volume points to the need to enhance interdisciplinary research using complementary methodologies to further examine sources of variation and to integrate variation into a more general developmental theory.
