Family Language Learning

Family Language Learning

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  • Author: Christine Jernigan
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1783092807
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 214

Family Language Learning is a practical guide designed to support, advise and encourage any parents who are hoping to raise their children bilingually. It is unique in that it focuses on parents who are not native speakers of a foreign language. It gives parents the tools they need to cultivate and nurture their own language skills while giving their children an opportunity to learn another language. The book combines cutting-edge research on language exposure with honest and often humorous stories from personal interviews with families speaking a foreign language at home. By dispelling long-held myths about how language is learned, it provides hope to parents who want to give their children bilingual childhoods, but feel they don't know where to start with learning a foreign language.


Them Children

Them Children

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  • Author: Martha Coonfield Ward
  • Publisher:
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  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 116

Study of how children in a small community called Rosepoint near New Orleans acquire speech. The major purpose of this research is to show specific examples of cultural transmission & to examine real-life conditions under which children actually learn their language.


Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family

Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family

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  • Author: Xiao-Lei Wang
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1847693695
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 190

Xiao-lei Wang received her doctoral degree from the University of Chicago in 1992. She is a full professor in the School of Education at Pace University in New York. Her research covers a wide range of topics such as cultural parenting styles, effects of nonverbal communication in teaching and learning, multilingual acquisition and development, and moral development. Her recent book Growing up with Three Languages: Birth to Eleven documented the simultaneous trilingual development of her own two children. Dr. Wang is a regular speaker on child development and parenting in local, national and international parents? associations and academic conferences.


Family Language Policy

Family Language Policy

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  • Author: Sonia Wilson
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 303052437X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 209

This book explores the question of family language policy in multilingual households. Presenting six case studies which focus on the experiences of parents and children in French-English bilingual contexts, the author draws conclusions about the impact of parental language management on the family as a whole which can be applied to transnational families from other linguistic backgrounds. While many parental guides on bilingual childrearing have been published in recent years, little attention has been paid to the possible impact of such language strategies on the experiences and interrelationships of bilingual family members. This book is unique in focusing in depth on the psychology and experiences of the child, and it will be of interest to readers in fields as diverse as sociolinguistics, language policy and planning, sociology of youth and family, and child psychology.


Family Language Learning

Family Language Learning

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  • Author: Christine Jernigan
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1783092823
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 391

Family Language Learning is a practical guide designed to support, advise and encourage any parents who are hoping to raise their children bilingually. It is unique in that it focuses on parents who are not native speakers of a foreign language. It gives parents the tools they need to cultivate and nurture their own language skills while giving their children an opportunity to learn another language. The book combines cutting-edge research on language exposure with honest and often humorous stories from personal interviews with families speaking a foreign language at home. By dispelling long-held myths about how language is learned, it provides hope to parents who want to give their children bilingual childhoods, but feel they don’t know where to start with learning a foreign language.


Raising Multilingual Children

Raising Multilingual Children

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  • Author: Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
  • Publisher: Praeger
  • ISBN: 0897897501
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Evaluates the most recent research in linguistics, neurology, education, and psychology and reinterprets the findings in an easy-to-follow format. Case studies illustrate the many ways families combine ten key factors in order to successfully raise multilingual children. The book encourages parents and teachers to reflect on their personal situations and helps them to foster multilingual skills in the children around them.


Bringing Up a Bilingual Child

Bringing Up a Bilingual Child

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  • Author: Rita Rosenback
  • Publisher: Filament Publishing Limited
  • ISBN: 9781910125243
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 188

'Bringing up a Bilingual Child' is aimed at (existing or soon-to-be) parents in families where more than one language is spoken, as well as anyone in the extended circle of family and friend of such multilingual families, as well as for anyone coming into contact with them. The aim of the book is to help multilingual families to create a supportive environment for children in which they naturally grow up to speak more than one language. The intention is to give you an easy-to-read-and-use guide to multilingual parenting, providing motivation, ideas, advice and answers to any questions parents may have.


Successful Family Language Policy

Successful Family Language Policy

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  • Author: Mila Schwartz
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 9400777531
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 295

This book presents the forefront of research in the emerging field of family language policy. This is the first volume to explore the link between family language policy, practice and management in the light of state and community language policy in more than 20 ethno-linguistic communities worldwide. Contributions by leading scholars from eight countries and three continents offer insights in how family language policy might be interpreted from various theoretical perspectives, using innovative methodologies. In particular, the authors present novel data on successful family language practices such as faith-related literacy activities and homework sessions, as well as management, including prayer, choice of bilingual education, and links with mainstream and complementary learning, which permit the realization of language ideology within three contexts: immigrant families, inter-marriage families, and minority and majority families in conflict-ridden societies.


Family Language Policy in the Polish Diaspora

Family Language Policy in the Polish Diaspora

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  • Author: Piotr Romanowski
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000373916
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 170

This book explores language practices, beliefs and management across a group of Polish immigrant families in Australia, drawing on these case studies as a lens through which to unpack dynamics of Family Language Policy (FLP) and their implications for future research on FLP. The volume begins by outlining the historical context of Polish immigration in Australia, charting two key waves of Polish migration in the 20th century and the subsequent unfolding of issues around language and culture maintenance in these families. This discussion paves the way for exploring key themes of language socialization, language ideologies and heritage language maintenance and the affordances of FLP research in elucidating these dynamics at work in the lived experiences of a group of Polish immigrant families in Melbourne. The book highlights the importance of a triangulated approach, integrating qualitative and quantitative methods, in offering nuanced insights into parental approaches and children’s experiences of a bilingual upbringing and the wider impact of FLP on transnational families. Opening up avenues for future research on Family Language Policy and a better understanding of the language practices of specific communities in a globalised world, this book will be of interest to scholars in multilingualism, sociolinguistics and applied linguistics.


Individual differences in early instructed language learning

Individual differences in early instructed language learning

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  • Author: Raphael Berthele
  • Publisher: Language Science Press
  • ISBN: 3961103240
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 254

Variability in predispositions for language learning has attracted scholarly curiosity for over 100 years. Despite major changes in theoretical explanations and foreign/second language teaching paradigms, some patterns of associations between predispositions and learning outcomes seem timelessly robust. This book discusses evidence from a research project investigating individual differences in a wide variety of domains, ranging from language aptitude over general cognitive abilities to motivational and other affective and social constructs. The focus lies on young learners aged 10 to 12, a less frequently investigated age in aptitude research. The data stem from two samples of multilingual learners in German-speaking Switzerland. The target languages are French and English. The chapters of the book offer two complementary perspectives on the topic: On the one hand, cross-sectional investigations of the underlying structure of these individual differences and their association with the target languages are discussed. Drawing on factor analytical and multivariable analyses, the different components are scrutinized with respect to their mutual dependence and their relative impact on target language skills. The analyses also take into account contextual factors such as the learners’ family background and differences across the two contexts investigated. On the other hand, the potential to predict learner’s skills in the target language over time based on the many different indicators is investigated using machine learning algorithms. The results provide new insights into the stability of the individual dispositions, on the impact of contextual variables, and on empirically robust dimensions within the array of variables tested.