How does a child become bilingual? The answer to this intriguing question remains largely a mystery, not least because it has been far less extensively researched than the process of mastering a single first language. Drawing on new studies of children exposed to two languages from birth (English and Cantonese), this book demonstrates how childhood bilingualism develops naturally in respon…
Bilingualism and bi-literacy are admirable goals for every individual. At the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE), we embrace this mantra and advocate learning more than one language and culture. We are now a global society and we must learn to create unity within diversity. As tireless advocates who work to influence and create moreinclusive language policies, more biling…
edited by Laurel J. Brinton, Minoji Akimoto.
Jean Wong, Hansun Zhang Waring.
Numa Markee.
Vincenza Tudini.
Raymond Hickey.
Belinda Crawford Camiciottoli.
Charles Boberg.
Fernando C.N. Pereira and Stuart M. Shieber.
Nigel Fabb.
edited by Patricia Cabredo Hofherr, Ora Matushansky.
By Galit W. Sassoon.
P.H. Matthews.
by An Van linden.
by Michael J. Sheehan.
D. Gary Miller.
Jean Aitchison.