基本説明
Brings together both established knowledge and the latest findings about different areas of bilingual language development (sounds, words, sentences, language choice) in a perspective that emphasizes the role of children's language learning environments.
Full Description
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.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introducing Bilingual First Language Acquisition
Chapter 2 Bilingual children's language development: an overview
Chapter 3 Research methods in BFLA
Chapter 4 Socializing environments and BLFA
Chapter 5 Sounds in BFLA
Chapter 6 Words in BFLA
Chapter 7 Sentences in BFLA
Chapter 8 Harmonious bilingual development
