Narrative Development in a Multilingual Context
Title | Narrative Development in a Multilingual Context PDF eBook |
Author | Ludo Verhoeven |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | 439 |
Release | 2001-12-31 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027297320 |
In this volume, the results of a number of empirical studies of the development of narrative construction within a multilingual context are presented and discussed. It is explored what operating principles underlie the process of narrative production in L1 and L2. Developmental relations between form and function will be studied across a broad range of functional categories, such as temporality, perspective, connectivity, and narrative coherence. Moreover, a variety of language contact situations is considered with broad variation in the typological distances between the languages in order to enable cross-linguistic comparison. The analysis of learner data in various cross-linguistic settings may thus offer new information on the role of the structural properties of unrelated languages on the process of narrative acquisition. In the present volume, an attempt is also made to find out how transfer from one language to the other is facilitated. Finally, the effects of input on narrative construction in children’s first and second language are examined in several studies.
Children's Multilingual Development and Education
Title | Children's Multilingual Development and Education PDF eBook |
Author | Alison L. Bailey |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 343 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1107042445 |
A study of the beliefs and practices of parents and educators raising future generations of multilingual children.
Rethinking the Education of Multilingual Learners
Title | Rethinking the Education of Multilingual Learners PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Cummins |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | 603 |
Release | 2021-09-06 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1800413602 |
Over the past 40 years, Jim Cummins has proposed a number of highly influential theoretical concepts, including the threshold and interdependence hypotheses and the distinction between conversational fluency and academic language proficiency. In this book, he provides a personal account of how these ideas developed and he examines the credibility of critiques they have generated, using the criteria of empirical adequacy, logical coherence, and consequential validity. These criteria of theoretical legitimacy are also applied to the evaluation of two different versions of translanguaging theory – Unitary Translanguaging Theory and Crosslinguistic Translanguaging Theory – in a way that significantly clarifies this controversial concept.
Transfer Effects in Multilingual Language Development
Title | Transfer Effects in Multilingual Language Development PDF eBook |
Author | Hagen Peukert |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | 353 |
Release | 2015-04-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 902726869X |
This volume, dedicated to language transfer, starts out with state-of-the-art psycholinguistic approaches to language transfer involving studies on psycho-typological transfer, lexical interference and foreign accent. The next chapter on Transfer in Language Learning, Contact, and Change presents new empirical data from several languages (English, German, Russian, French, Italian) on various transfer phenomena ranging from second language acquisition and contact-induced change in word order to cross-linguistic influences in word formation and the lexicon. Transfer in Applied Linguistics scrutinizes, on the one hand, the external sources of language transfer by investigating bilingual resources and the school context, but also by pointing out the differences in academic language in multilingual adolescents. On the other hand, internal sources of language transfer in multilingual classrooms are illuminated. A final chapter directs its focus on methodological issues that arise when more than one language is studied systematically and it offers a solution on causal effects for the investigation of heritage language proficiencies. The chapter also includes studies that exploit more innovative methodologies on L1 identification and clitic acquisition.
Multilingual Development
Title | Multilingual Development PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Siemund |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 311 |
Release | 2022-12-31 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1108844022 |
Explores the multilingual upbringing and development of individuals in their respective societies, focusing on English as a global language.
A Multilingual Development Framework for Young Learners
Title | A Multilingual Development Framework for Young Learners PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Hofer |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | 212 |
Release | 2023-03-06 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 311110771X |
This book presents a new extended framework for the study of early multicompetence. It proposes a concept of multilingual competences as a valuable educational target, and a view of the multilingual learner as a competent language user. The thematic focus is on multilingual skill development in primary schoolers in the trilingual province of South Tyrol, northern Italy. A wide range of topics pertaining to multicompetence building and the special affordances of multilingual pedagogy are explored. Key concepts like language proficiency, native-speakerism, or monolingual classroom bias are subjected to critical analysis.
Phonological Development and Disorders in Children
Title | Phonological Development and Disorders in Children PDF eBook |
Author | Zhu Hua |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1853598895 |
This volume brings together a collection of empirical studies on phonological acquisition and disorder of monolingual children speaking different languages (English, German, Putonghua, Cantonese, Maltese, Telugu, Colloquial Egyptian Arabic and Turkish) and bilingual children speaking different language pairs (Spanish-English, Cantonese-English, Mirpuri/Punjabi/Urdu-English, Welsch-English, Arabic-English and Putonghua-Cantonese). The research findings provide much-needed baseline information for clinical assessment and diagnosis as well as valuable evidence concerning theories of language acquisition and the role of the ambient language.