The lives of many families involve contact with more than one language and culture on a daily basis. Growing Up with Two Languages is aimed at the many parents and professionals who feel uncertain about the best way to go about helping children gain maximum benefit from the mult…
"This book presents a thorough description of morphosyntactic knowledge developed by learners of French in four different learning situations -- first language (L1) acquisition, second (L2) language acquisition, bilingualism, and acquisition by children with Specific Language Im…
Through the real-life context of one child (the author's daugher) learning to be bilingual and biliterate, this book raises questions and provides a context for pre-service and practicing teachers to understand and reflect on how children learn to read and write in multiple lang…
Explores how English language learners develop both the oral language and literacy skills necessary for school success. --from publisher description.
One parent, one language: an interactional approach
Input and experience in bilingual development
The Development of the Grammatical System in Early Second Language Acquisition focuses on the acquisition process of early L2 learners. It is based on the following key hypothesis: the initial mental grammatical system of L2 learners is constrained semantically, syntactically an…
