Multiple Voices An Introduction To Bilingualism

Author : Carol Myers-Scotton
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Multiple Voices written by Carol Myers-Scotton and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2006 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a comprehensive overview of all major asepcts of bilingualism. It is primarily concerned with bilingualis as a socio-political phenomenon in the world and, as such, emphasizes languages in contact, language maintenance and shift, language policy, and bilingual education.

Author : Elizabeth Lanza
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780199265060
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Mixing in Infant Bilingualism written by Elizabeth Lanza and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the issue of language contact in the context of child language acquisition. Elizabeth Lanza examines in detail the simultaneous acquisition of Norwegian and English by two first-born children in families living in Norway in which the mother is American and the father Norwegian. She connects psycholinguistic arguments with sociolinguistic evidence, adding a much-needed dimension of real language-use in context to the psycholinguistic studies which have dominated the field. She draws upon evidence from other studies to support her claims concerning language dominance and the child's differentiation between the two languages in relation to the situation, interlocutor, and the communicative demands of the context. She also addresses the question of whether or not the language mixing of infant bilingualism is conceptually different from the codeswitching of older bilinguals, thus helping to bridge the gap between these two fields of study.

Author : Charlotte Hoffmann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317887662
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Bilingualism written by Charlotte Hoffmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Bilingualism provides a comprehensive review of the most important aspects of individual and societal bilingualism, examining both theoretcial and practical issues. At the level of the individual, it addresses such questios as: What is involved in the study of bilingual children? What are the patterns of bilingual language acquisition? In which ways do the language competence and the speech of bilinguals differ from those of monolinguals? Topics that sometimes arouse controversy are explored - such as the question of whether there is a relationship between bilingualsim and a child's cognitive, psychological and social development. The book is also concerned with multilingualism, that is, bilingualsim as a societal phenomenon. It focuses on such issues as language choice in bilingual and multilingual communities, national identity and the education of bilinguals. The inclusion of several case studies of European linguistic minorities serves to exemplify the topics dealt with at the theoretical level and to illustrate the linguistic complexities found in contemporary Europe.

Author : Jane Miller
Publisher : London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Many Voices written by Jane Miller and published by London ; Boston : Routledge & Kegan Paul. This book was released on 1983 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Janina Brutt-Griffler
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9781853597558
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bilingualism and Language Pedagogy written by Janina Brutt-Griffler and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bilingualism and Language Pedagogy brings an understanding of language as a social practice and bilingualism as the study of bidirectional transitioning to the examination of bilingual settings in the US, Europe, and the developing countries. Focusing both on bilingual linguistic competence and educational politics and practice, the volume provides valuable practical proposals and models for developing sociocultural and linguistic competencies among bilingual practitioners and students.

Author : Jeanine Treffers-Daller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311088223X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mixing Two Languages written by Jeanine Treffers-Daller and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mixing Two Languages: French-Dutch Contact in a Comparative Perspective (Topics in Sociolinguistics, 9).

Author : James Crawford
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 9781853595059
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At War with Diversity written by James Crawford and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bilingualism is a reality that many Americans still find difficult to accept; hence the prominence of English-only activism in U.S. politics. This collection of essays analyzes the sources of the anti-bilingual movement, its changing directions, and its impact on education policy. The book also explores efforts to resist the English-only trend, including projects to revitalize Native American languages.

Author : Charlotte Hoffmann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780582291430
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Bilingualism written by Charlotte Hoffmann and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1991 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Bilingualism provides a comprehensive review of the most important aspects of individual and societal bilingualism, examining both theoretcial and practical issues. At the level of the individual, it addresses such questios as: What is involved in the study of bilingual children? What are the patterns of bilingual language acquisition? In which ways do the language competence and the speech of bilinguals differ from those of monolinguals? Topics that sometimes arouse controversy are explored - such as the question of whether there is a relationship between bilingualsim and a child's cognitive, psychological and social development. The book is also concerned with multilingualism, that is, bilingualsim as a societal phenomenon. It focuses on such issues as language choice in bilingual and multilingual communities, national identity and the education of bilinguals. The inclusion of several case studies of European linguistic minorities serves to exemplify the topics dealt with at the theoretical level and to illustrate the linguistic complexities found in contemporary Europe.

Author : Christina Schelletter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137609559
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Bilingualism written by Christina Schelletter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together linguists' and psychologists' approaches to the study of bilingualism, this innovative and engaging volume provides students with a firm grounding in bilingual acquisition and development. It begins with a discussion of sequential and simultaneous bilinguals, illustrated by a wealth of case studies and examples, and the key theories surrounding bilingual development. The book subsequently explores topics such as bilingual speech perception, sound, lexical and morpho-syntactic development, cognitive processing and metalinguistic awareness.Introduction to Bilingualism is an essential companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students of applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, speech and language therapy and language education.>

Author : Anika Kehl
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656719934
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Bilingualism. Growing up with two languages written by Anika Kehl and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 1,0, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Proseminar: Contact Linguistics, language: English, abstract: There are millions of children around the world who grow up bilingually or even multilingually. They need to know many different languages to be able to communicate with their parents, their teachers, with the people they buy their groceries from, or with officials who might all speak a different language. For those children, for their parents and the society that surrounds those it is more than normal to be multilingual. Over the past decades the topic of bilingualism has become more and more important in the western part of the world too. There are many families who start teaching their children two and more languages but it is also still a subject that is highly debated between scholars from all over the world. People are afraid that teaching two languages to a child might harm his or her development. They do not want to overburden their children or cause any severe damages. Therefore many parents and caretakers still decide for one language which they will teach to their child(ren). This paper is going to analyse some aspects of the question how children become bilinguals and which difficulties might occur along the way while trying to prove that children are very well able to learn two and even more languages from birth. After starting out with a short personal introduction, the terms ‘bilingualism’, ‘early bilingualism’ and ‘late bilingualism’ are going to be defined. Afterwards types of child language acquisition are explained and two different theses on how children become bilingual are shortly looked at. It is going to be looked at some specialities in child language acquisition and different language characteristics of early bilingual speech are highlighted. In conclusion it is going to be looked at some possibilities to support children in their bilingual development.