Becoming Bilingual: Language Acquisition in a Bilingual Community

✍ Scribed by Jean Lyon

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 284
• Series: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism; 11
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a longitudinal study of how children learn to use more than one language which addresses bilingual language development within families. It aims to examine how young children become bilingual, and to show what factors predict early childhood bilingualism.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 How do Children Acquire Language?
2 Where Do You Find Bilingual Children?
3 What is Meant by Childhood Bilingualism?
4 How can Quid Language be Studied?
5 What Language Backgrounds are There?
6 What Opinions Do Parents Hold About Language?
7 A Close Look at the Language of Young Children
8 How Do Children in a Bilingual Community Learn Language?
9 How Do Young Children Use Language and Do They Know What They are Doing?
10 Which Parent has More Influence on the Language of the Home?
11 What Predicts a Child's Language?
12 How Do Young Children Become Bilingual?
Bibliography
Appendices
Index