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Childhood bilingualism : research on infancy through school age / edited by Peggy McCardle and Erika Hoff.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Child language and child development ; 7.
- Child language and child development ; 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bilingualism in children.
- Language acquisition.
- Literacy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (180 p.)
- Edition:
- New Edition
- Place of Publication:
- Clevedon : Multilingual Matters, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Bilingual Speech Processing in Infants and Adults
- Chapter 2. When Infants Hear Two Languages: Interpreting Research on Early Speech Perception by Bilingual Children
- Chapter 3. The Onset of Word Form Recognition in One Language and in Two
- Chapter 4. Bilingual First Language Acquisition in Perspective
- Chapter 5. Social Factors in Bilingual Development: The Miami Experience
- Chapter 6. Developing Literacy in English-language Learners: An Examination of the Impact of English-only Versus Bilingual Instruction
- Chapter 7. Bilingualism at School: Effect on the Acquisition of Literacy
- Chapter 8. Adult Bilingualism and Bilingual Development
- Chapter 9 Finding the Points of Contact: Language Acquisition in Children Raised in Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Environments
- Chapter 10. Multiple Perspectives on Research on Childhood Bilingualism
- Chapter 11. An Agenda for Research on Childhood Bilingualism
- The Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786610501793
- 9781280501791
- 1280501790
- 9781853598715
- 1853598712
- OCLC:
- 560065438
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