Becoming bilingual : language acquisition in a bilingual community

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    • Lyon, Jean

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Becoming bilingual : language acquisition in a bilingual community

Jean Lyon

(Bilingual education and bilingualism / series editors, Colin Baker and Nancy Hornberger, 11)

Multilingual Matters, c1996

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  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. 231-242

Includes index

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内容説明

Language is one of humanity's greatest achievements, yet one which virtually all children achieve remarkably quickly. How much more remarkable, therefore, when children learn not one but two languages! There are many single case studies describing children from families where determined parents adopt strategies to maximise their children's chances of becoming bilingual. Many more children, whose parents speak a mixture of languages, also become bilingual without this extra help. How this occurs and why some children have more problems than others in a bilingual environment are some of the issues addressed by this book, which is a longitudinal study of how children learn to use more than one language. The family is assumed to be the key factor in these processes, and bilingual language development is placed firmly within an interactive context, as it is from this context that the development of childhood bilingualism can best be understood. Thus the aims of this book are to examine how young children become bilingual, and to show what factors predict early childhood bilingualism.

目次

Introduction 1. How do Children Acquire Language? 2. Where Do You Find Bilingual Children? 3. What is Meant by Childhood Bilingualism? 4. How can Child Language be Studied? 5. What Language Backgrounds are There? 6. What Opinions Do Parents Hold About Language? 7. A Close Look at the Language of Young Children 8. How Do Children in a Bilingual Community Learn Language? 9. How Do Young Children Use Language and Do They Know What They Are Doing? 10. Which Parent has More Influence on the Language of the Home? 11. What Predicts a Child's Language? 12. How Do Young Children Become Bilingual? Appendices: Language Background Questionnaire (QI) Language Development Questionnaire (QII) Dictionary of Common Words

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