Language and Literacy in Bilingual Children

✍ Scribed by Kimbrough Oller (editor); Rebecca Eilers (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 318
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides new insights regarding the critical issues of theory and practice, including the interdependence of linguistic knowledge in bilinguals, the role of socioeconomic status, the effect of different language usage patterns in the home, and the role of schooling by single-language immersion.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgements
Part 1: Background
Chapter 1: Assessing the Effects of Bilingualism: A Background
Chapter: 2 An Integrated Approach to Evaluating Effects of Bilingualism in Miami School Children: The Study Design
Part 2: Overall Results on Language Use and Standardized Test Performance
Chapter 3: Bilingualism and Cultural Assimilation in Miami Hispanic Children
Chapter: 4 Effects of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education on Oral and Written English Skills: A Multifactor Study of Standardized Test Outcomes
Chapter 5: Effects of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education on Oral and Written Spanish Skills: A Multifactor Study of Standardized Test Outcomes
Chapter 6: Interdependence of Spanish and English Knowledge in Language and Literacy Among Bilingual Children
Part 3: Probe Studies on Complex Language Capabilities
Chapter 7: Narrative Competence among Monolingual and Bilingual School Children in Miami
Chapter 8: Command of the Mass/Count Distinction in Bilingual and Monolingual Children: An English Morphosyntactic Distinction
Chapter 9: Grammatical Gender in Bilingual and Monolingual Children: A Spanish Morphosyntactic Distinction
Chapter 10: Monolingual and Bilingual Acquisition: Learning Different Treatments of that-trace Phenomena in English and Spanish
Chapter 11: The Ability of Bilingual and Monolingual Children to Perform Phonological Translation
Part 4: A Retrospective View of the Research
Chapter 12: Balancing Interpretations Regarding Effects of Bilingualism: Empirical Outcomes and Theoretical Possibilities
References
Index