Trilingualism in Family, School, and Community

2004
Trilingualism in Family, School, and Community

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  • Author: Charlotte Hoffmann
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 9781853596926
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 252

Countries in Africa, America, Asia and Europe provide the sociolinguistic contexts described in this volume. They involve settings where three or more languages are spoken and where speakers are trilingual. With the focus on family, school and the wider community, the book illustrates personal, social, cultural and political factors contributing to the acquisition and maintenance of trilingualism and highlights a rich pattern of trilingual language use.

Language Strategies for Trilingual Families

2014-01-29
Language Strategies for Trilingual Families

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  • Author: Andreas Braun
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1783091150
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 120

This book aims to enable parents in trilingual families to consider possible language strategies on the basis of analysing their individual circumstances. It includes a tool for diagnostic self-analysis that will help each reader to identify their situation and learn how parents in similar situations have approached the task of supporting their children’s use of languages. Based on a unique survey of parents in trilingual families in two European countries, the book highlights the challenges that trilingual families face when living in mainly monolingual societies. It takes into account the recent emergence of a 'New Trilingualism' among educated parents who find themselves in trilingual families because of global trends in migration and the recent expansion of the EU.

Language Strategies for Trilingual Families

2014-02-03
Language Strategies for Trilingual Families

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  • Author: Andreas Braun
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1783091177
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 209

This book aims to enable parents in trilingual families to consider possible language strategies on the basis of analysing their individual circumstances. It includes a tool for diagnostic self-analysis that will help each reader to identify their situation and learn how parents in similar situations have approached the task of supporting their children’s use of languages. Based on a unique survey of parents in trilingual families in two European countries, the book highlights the challenges that trilingual families face when living in mainly monolingual societies. It takes into account the recent emergence of a 'New Trilingualism' among educated parents who find themselves in trilingual families because of global trends in migration and the recent expansion of the EU.

Multilingualism and Applied Comparative Linguistics (Volume II)

2009-10-02
Multilingualism and Applied Comparative Linguistics (Volume II)

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  • Author: Frank Boers
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • ISBN: 144381489X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 370

In February 2006 the first international conference on Multilingualism and Applied Comparative Linguistics (MACL) was held in Brussels, Belgium. The aim of the MACL conference was to bring together scholars from various branches of applied linguistics with a shared interest in cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communication. The conference thus fostered an exchange of knowledge and expertise among researchers from various disciplines, including educational linguistics, cultural linguistics, terminography, translation studies and studies of specialised languages. The present book is the second of two volumes containing a selection from the approximately 120 papers that were presented at that three-day event. The book comprises five chapters, reflecting different research perspectives on cross-linguistic and cross-cultural communication. The first chapter covers research articles on metaphors and planned languages. The second chapter comprises articles dealing with language attitudes, language proficiency and language practices in cross-linguistic and cross-cultural, communicative contexts. Chapter three features articles in the field of discourse-analysis research. In the fourth chapter research is presented that pertains to terminology and specialised languages. Finally, chapter five deals with translation studies.

Trilingualism in Education in China: Models and Challenges

2014-09-26
Trilingualism in Education in China: Models and Challenges

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  • Author: Anwei Feng
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 9401793522
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 258

This book examines language policies and practices in schools in regions of China populated by indigenous minority groups. It focuses on models of trilingual education, i.e. education in the home language, Putonghua (Mandarin Chinese, the national language), and English (the main foreign language). Special attention is given to the study of the vitality of the minority home language in each region and issues relating to and the effects of the teaching and learning of the minority home language on minority students’ acquisition of Mandarin Chinese and English and on their school performance in general. The book also examines the case of Cantonese in Guangdong, where the local Chinese ‘dialect’ is strong but distant from the mainstream language, Putonghua. It takes a new approach to researching sociolinguistic phenomena, and presents a new methodology that emerged from studies of bi/trilingualism in European societies and was then tailored to the trilingual context in China. The methodology encompasses policy analysis and community language profiles, as well as school-based fieldwork, and provides rich data that facilitate multilevel analysis of policy-in-context.

Multilingual Lexical Recognition in the Mental Lexicon of Third Language Users

2014-10-07
Multilingual Lexical Recognition in the Mental Lexicon of Third Language Users

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  • Author: Weronika Szubko-Sitarek
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3642321941
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 211

The monograph constitutes an attempt to demonstrate that trilinguals should be considered as learners and speakers in their own right as opposed to L2 learners with a view to enumerating consequences this would bring to third or additional language teaching. Its theoretical part offers an insight into the structure of the multilingual mental lexicon which is a product of the interplay of a whole array of cross-linguistic factors in the minds of multilingual speakers. The empirical part reports the findings of an empirical study which aimed to investigate connections which are formed between multiple languages in a multilingual mind. All the aspects, analyzed in the experiments are part of a broader question of how multilinguals make their lexical decisions and, more specifically, how they recognize words from different languages. The book closes with the discussion of the role of the obtained results for multilingual didactics as well as some possible areas for future research.

Trilingual Language Acquisition

2015-10-15
Trilingual Language Acquisition

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  • Author: Sarah Chevalier
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 902726788X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 225

This book examines the language development of two children from the ages of two till four, who are growing up exposed to English, Swiss German and French. Its aim is to ascertain the importance of different environmental factors in fostering active trilingualism. These factors include the quantity of input for each language, whether or not the societal language is spoken in the home, and the conversational style of the caregivers. Although increasing numbers of children are being raised trilingually, research in this field is scarce; this study thus makes an important contribution to our knowledge of trilingual language acquisition. A special point of interest lies in a comparison of the acquisition of two minority languages by a single child, since this allows us to pinpoint more precisely how the development of non-societal languages can be influenced. This book will be of considerable interest to researchers and students working on multilingualism and language acquisition alike.

Considering Trilingual Education

2012
Considering Trilingual Education

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  • Author: Kathryn Henn-Reinke
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 0415502632
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 268

Based in case studies conducted in the US, Europe, and Latin America, this book explores the feasibility and benefits of trilingual/ multilingual education in the United States. Currently, there are few programs in the country of this nature, as educators tend to conclude that English-language learners would be overwhelmed by study in additional languages. Henn-Reinke builds an argument supporting trilingual education in the US, discussing issues of identity, curriculum, pedagogy, and the impact of other psycho-socio-linguistic factors.

Language Strategies for Bilingual Families

2004-01-01
Language Strategies for Bilingual Families

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  • Author: Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 9781853597145
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 246

This book looks at how families can support and increase bilingualism through planned strategies. One such strategy is the one person-one language approach, where each parent speaks his or her language. Over a hundred families from around the world were questioned and thirty families were interviewed in-depth about how they pass on their language in bilingual or trilingual families.

Growing up with Three Languages

2008-11-06
Growing up with Three Languages

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  • Author: Xiao-lei Wang
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1847695671
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 234

This book is based on an eleven-year observation of two children who were simultaneously exposed to three languages from birth. It tells the story of two parents from different cultural, linguistic, and ethnic-racial backgrounds who joined to raise their two children with their heritage languages outside their native countries. It also tells the children’s story and the way they negotiated three cultures and languages and developed a trilingual identity. It sheds light on how parental support contributed to the children’s simultaneous acquisition of three languages in an environment where the main input of the two heritage languages came respectively from the father and from the mother. It addresses the challenges and the unique language developmental characteristics of the two children during their trilingual acquisition process.