Growing Up with Two Languages

Growing Up with Two Languages
Author: Una Cunningham
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1999
Genre: Bilingualism in children
ISBN: 041521257X

Growing up with Two Languagesis aimed at the many parents and professionals who feel uncertain about the best ways to help children who are in contact with more than one language and culture to gain maximum benefit from the situation.

Growing Up with Two Languages

Growing Up with Two Languages
Author: Una Cunningham
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2020-02-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000030679

Growing Up with Two Languages provides a highly accessible account of the stages of language development, describes and evaluates the various systems and strategies that can be adopted and looks at the problems that can occur when a child is exposed to two languages and cultures. Combining research-informed advice and the experience of parents raising children as speakers of a wide range of languages in every populated continent in the world, this book and its associated web material will answer questions, offer tried and tested strategies to keep children speaking a minority language, and provide material to enlist the support of the extended family, teachers and others. The perspective of adults who were themselves raised speaking more than one language is included. New to this edition is a chapter focusing on families raising children as speakers of indigenous and threatened languages as well as chapters for teachers and health professionals who want to know more about multilingual child language development and how they can support parents to continue speaking their language with their children. With new and updated first-hand advice, Internet resources and examples throughout, this book also includes a chapter that introduces important recent research into multilingual children and further reading guides for those who want to know more. This book is for parents who are raising or plan to raise children as speakers of more than one language, and for the teachers and healthcare workers who meet and can support them.

Growing up with Three Languages

Growing up with Three Languages
Author: Xiao-lei Wang
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2008-11-06
Genre: 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.

Growing Up with Languages

Growing Up with Languages
Author: Claire Thomas
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2012-05-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1847697151

Primarily aimed as a practical resource for parents, but also of interest to students and researchers because of its unique content, this book includes recollections of and advice on many of the common issues or dilemmas that arise in multilingual families.

Bringing Up a Bilingual Child

Bringing Up a Bilingual Child
Author: Rita Rosenback
Publisher: Filament Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2014-06-10
Genre: 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.

The Bilingual Family

The Bilingual Family
Author: Edith Esch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2003-03-27
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780521808620

An up-to-date, accessible guide for parents of bilingual children.

First Language Acquisition

First Language Acquisition
Author: Eve V. Clark
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2009-01-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0521514134

In this volume, Eve V. Clark takes a comprehensive look at where and when children acquire a first language. All the major findings and debates are presented in a highly readable form.

Bilingual First Language Acquisition

Bilingual First Language Acquisition
Author: Annick De Houwer
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2009-02-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1847696287

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.

Bilingual Children

Bilingual Children
Author: Jürgen M. Meisel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2019-06-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1107181364

This practical and reassuring guide will enable readers to make informed decisions about how to raise their child bilingually.