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.
Inhoudsopgave
Childhood Bilingualism Research: An Introduction – Erika Hoff and Peggy Mc Cardle
Processing Two Languages
1. Bilingual Speech Processing – J. F. Werker, W. M. Weikum, and K. A. Yoshida
2. When Infants Hear Two Languages: Interpreting Research on Early Speech Perception by Bilingual Children – A. Fernald
3. The Onset of Word Form Recognition in One Language and in Two – M. M. Vihman, J. A. G. Lum, G. Thierry, S. Nakai and T. Keren-Portnoy
Speaking Two Languages
4. Bilingual First Language Acquisition in Perspective – F. Genesee
5. Social Factors in Bilingual Development – R. E. Eilers, B. Zurer Pearson, A. B. Cobo-Lewis
Acquiring Literacy in Two Languages
6. Developing Literacy in English-Language Learners – D. August, M. Calderon, Maria Carlo, and M. Nuttall
7. Bilingualism at School – E. Bialystok
Perspectives on Childhood Bilingualism from Related Fields
8. Adult Bilingualism and Bilingual Development – J. Kroll
9. Finding the Points of Contact: Language Acquisition in Children Raised in Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Environment – S. Waxman
Closing Comments
10. Multiple Perspectives on Research on Childhood Bilingualism – M. Crago
11. An Agenda for Research on Childhood Bilingualism – Peggy Mc Cardle and Erika Hoff
Over de auteur
Erika Hoff is a professor of psychology at Florida Atlantic University, in Davie, Florida. She studies language development and bilingualism.Meer e-boeken van dezelfde auteur (s) / Editor
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