Date: 04-Mar-2009 From: Elinor Robertson <marketingmultilingual-matters.com> Subject: Bilingual First Language Acquisition: De Houwer E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Bilingual First Language Acquisition
Series Title: MM Textbooks
Published: 2009
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
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Increasingly, children grow up hearing two languages from birth. This comprehensive textbook explains how children learn to understand and speak those languages. It brings together both established knowledge and the latest findings about different areas of bilingual language development. It also includes new analyses of previously published materials. The book describes how bilingually raised children learn to understand and use sounds, words and sentences in two languages. A recurrent theme is the large degree of variation between bilingual children. This variation in how children develop bilingually reflects the variation in their language learning environments. Positive attitudes from the people in bilingual children's language learning environments and their recognition that child bilingualism is not monolingualism-times-two are the main ingredients ensuring that children grow up to be happy and expert speakers of two languages.
Date: 04-Mar-2009 From: Elinor Robertson <marketingmultilingual-matters.com> Subject: Learning to be Literate: Edwards E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Learning to be Literate
Subtitle: Multilingual Perspectives
Series Title: MM Textbooks
Published: 2009
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
This textbook brings together research on literacy and multilingualism from a variety of settings: the learning of English in migrant destinations, immersion and bilingual education, and the maintenance of heritage languages. Designed to be accessible to students from a wide range of disciplines, the book explores multilingualism as a global phenomenon at both the individual and societal level, and literacy learning in a wide variety of contexts. It uses both these discussions to explore the theoretical and policy issues which are behind current educational practice, and points to possible ways forward. Students are introduced to examples of innovative and best practice from a range of international contexts, and discussion points and suggested activities encourage them to build on their own experiences as language learners. This is an ideal introductory text for students on courses where a critical understanding of language in education is necessary, as well as being a useful summary of the field and its future directions for researchers, practitioners and policy makers.
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