Author : Charlotte Hoffmann
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,21 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853596926
Countries in Africa, America, Asia and Europe provide the sociolinguistic contexts described in this volume. They involve settings where three or more languages are spoken and where speakers are trilingual. With the focus on family, school and the wider community, the book illustrates personal, social, cultural and political factors contributing to the acquisition and maintenance of trilingualism and highlights a rich pattern of trilingual language use.
Author : Andreas Braun
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 26,26 MB
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1783091177
This book aims to enable parents in trilingual families to consider possible language strategies on the basis of analysing their individual circumstances. It includes a tool for diagnostic self-analysis that will help each reader to identify their situation and learn how parents in similar situations have approached the task of supporting their children’s use of languages. Based on a unique survey of parents in trilingual families in two European countries, the book highlights the challenges that trilingual families face when living in mainly monolingual societies. It takes into account the recent emergence of a 'New Trilingualism' among educated parents who find themselves in trilingual families because of global trends in migration and the recent expansion of the EU.
Author : Peter Auer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 30,21 MB
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 311019855X
This volume is an up-to-date, concise introduction to bilingualism and multilingualism in schools, in the workplace, and in international institutions in a globalized world. The authors use a problem-solving approach and ask broad questions about bilingualism and multilingualism in society, including the question of language acquisition versus maintenance of bilingualism. Key features: provides a state-of-the-art description of different areas in the context of multilingualism and multilingual communication presents a critical appraisal of the relevance of the field, offers solutions of everyday language-related problems international handbook with contributions from renown experts in the field
Author : Xiao-lei Wang
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 28,14 MB
Release : 2008-11-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1847695671
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.
Author : Xiao-Lei Wang
Publisher : Multilingual Matters Limited
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 29,34 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781847693709
Drawing on interdisciplinary research, as well as the experiences of parents of multilingual children, this book walks parents through the multilingual reading and writing process from infancy to adolescence. It identifies essential skills at each developmental stage and proposes effective strategies that facilitate multiliteracy, in particular, heritage-language literacy development in the home environment.
Author : Colin Baker
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 19,13 MB
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 1783091606
In this accessible guide to bilingualism in the family and the classroom, Colin Baker delivers a realistic picture of the joys and difficulties of raising bilingual children. This revised edition includes more information on bilingualism in the digital age, and incorporates the latest research in areas such as neonatal language experience, multilingualism and language mixing.
Author : Rita Rosenback
Publisher : Filament Publishing Limited
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781910125243
'Bringing up a Bilingual Child' is aimed at (existing or soon-to-be) parents in families where more than one language is spoken, as well as anyone in the extended circle of family and friend of such multilingual families, as well as for anyone coming into contact with them. The aim of the book is to help multilingual families to create a supportive environment for children in which they naturally grow up to speak more than one language. The intention is to give you an easy-to-read-and-use guide to multilingual parenting, providing motivation, ideas, advice and answers to any questions parents may have.
Author : Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 2009-08-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1847696856
The principles for enabling children to become fully proficient multilinguals through schooling are well known. Even so, most indigenous/tribal, minority and marginalised children are not provided with appropriate mother-tongue-based multilingual education (MLE) that would enable them to succeed in school and society. In this book experts from around the world ask why this is, and show how it can be done. The book discusses general principles and challenges in depth and presents case studies from Canada and the USA, northern Europe, Peru, Africa, India, Nepal and elsewhere in Asia. Analysis by leading scholars in the field shows the importance of building on local experience. Sharing local solutions globally can lead to better theory, and to action for more social justice and equality through education.
Author : Christine Jernigan
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,37 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Education
ISBN : 1783092807
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.
Author : Ofelia Dumas Lachtman
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 26,99 MB
Release : 1995-10-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781611922493
Pepita, a little girl who can converse in Spanish and English, decides not to "speak twice" until unanticipated problems cause her to think twice about her decision.
