Language and Literacy in Bilingual Children

Kimbrough Oller, Rebecca Eilers (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2002
Multilingual Matters (Verlag)
978-1-85359-570-7 (ISBN)

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This book provides new insights regarding the critical issues of theory and practice, including the interdependence of linguistic knowledge in bilinguals, the role of socioeconomic status, the effect of different language usage patterns in the home, and the role of schooling by single-language immersion.

This book sets a high standard for rigor and scientific approach to the study of bilingualism and provides new insights regarding the critical issues of theory and practice, including the interdependence of linguistic knowledge in bilinguals, the role of socioeconomic status, the effect of different language usage patterns in the home, and the role of schooling by single-language immersion as opposed to systematic training in both home and target languages. The rich landscape of outcomes reported in the volume will provide a frame for interpretation and understanding of effects of bilingualism for years to come.

D. Kimbrough Oller, is Professor and Plough Chair of Excellence at the University of Memphis School of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology. He is author of over 150 articles in language and speech, and an international authority in language learning. His research on English and Spanish-learning children as well as bilingual children is widely published, and his earlier book The Emergence of the Speech Capacity brings together results of his research of thirty years. Rebecca E. Eilers is Professor of Psychology and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Maine. For nearly thirty years she has been a leading figure in infant speech perception and young child language as the primary author of a substantial literature on development of linguistic capabilities in children with Spanish and/or English in the home.

Acknowledgements

Part 1: Background

1 D. Kimbrough Oller and Barbara Zurer Pearson: Assessing the Effects of Bilingualism: A Background

2 D. Kimbrough Oller and Rebecca E. Eilers: An Integrated Approach to Evaluating Effects of Bilingualism in Miami School Children: The Study Design

Part 2: Overall Results on Language Use and Standardized Test Performance

3 Rebecca E. Eilers, D. Kimbrough Oller and Alan B. Cobo-Lewis: Bilingualism and Cultural Assimilation in Miami Hispanic Children

4 Alan B. Cobo-Lewis, Barbara Zurer Pearson, Rebecca E. Eilers and Vivian C. Umbel: Effects of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education on Oral and Written English Skills: A Multifactor Study of Standardized Test Outcomes

5 Alan B. Cobo-Lewis, Barbara Zurer Pearson, Rebecca E. Eilers and Vivian C. Umbel: Effects of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education on Oral and Written Spanish Skills: A Multifactor Study of Standardized Test Outcomes

6 Alan B. Cobo-Lewis, Rebecca E. Eilers, Barbara Zurer Pearson and Vivian C. Umbel: Interdependence of Spanish and English Knowledge in Language and Literacy Among Bilingual Children

Part 3: Probe Studies on Complex Language Capabilities

7 Barbara Zurer Pearson: Narrative Competence among Monolingual and Bilingual School Children in Miami

8 Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole: Command of the Mass/Count Distinction in Bilingual and Monolingual Children: An English Morphosyntactic Distinction

9 Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole: Grammatical Gender in Bilingual and Monolingual Children: A Spanish Morphosyntactic Distinction

10 Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole: Monolingual and Bilingual Acquisition: Learning Different Treatments of that-trace Phenomena in English and Spanish

11 D. Kimbrough Oller and Alan B. Cobo-Lewis: The Ability of Bilingual and Monolingual Children to Perform Phonological Translation

Part 4: A Retrospective View of the Research

12 D. Kimbrough Oller and Rebecca E. Eilers: Balancing Interpretations Regarding Effects of Bilingualism: Empirical Outcomes and Theoretical Possibilities

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.4.2002
Reihe/Serie	Child Language and Child Development
Verlagsort	Bristol
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	416 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-85359-570-5 / 1853595705
ISBN-13	978-1-85359-570-7 / 9781853595707
Zustand	Neuware