Bilingual Children
eBook - PDF

Bilingual Children

A Guide for Parents

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Bilingual Children

A Guide for Parents

About this book

Are you raising your child bilingually, or planning to do so in the future, but are unsure how to proceed? Using a question-and-answer format, this practical and reassuring guide will enable readers to make informed decisions about how to raise their child with two or more languages. To grow up bilingually is a necessity or an opportunity for more children today than ever before. However, parents are frequently uncertain about what to do, or even fear that they may be putting their child's development at risk. Disentangling fact from myth, it shows that a child can acquire more than one 'first' language simultaneously and that one language need not have negative effects on the other. Each chapter is devoted to a question typically asked by parents in counselling sessions, followed by a concise answer, summaries of the evidence and practical tips.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Preface
  8. List of Abbreviations
  9. 1 Bilingualism in Early Childhood: Disentangling Myths and Facts
  10. 2 How Infants Become Native Speakers
  11. 3 Two Languages in One Mind: Differentiating Linguistic Systems
  12. 4 Keeping Languages Apart: Mixing, Interference and Interaction of Languages
  13. 5 Language Dominance: Strong and Weak Languages
  14. 6 Trilingual and More: The Role of Input
  15. 7 The Age Question
  16. 8 Benefits and Advantages of Child Bilingualism
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index