Becoming Bilingual

Language Acquisition in a Bilingual Community

By: Jean Lyon

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Paperback | 11 November 1996

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Language is one of humanity's greatest achievements, yet one which virtually all children achieve remarkably quickly. How much more remarkable, therefore, when children learn not one but two languages! There are many single case studies describing children from families where determined parents adopt strategies to maximise their children's chances of becoming bilingual. Many more children, whose parents speak a mixture of languages, also become bilingual without this extra help. How this occurs and why some children have more problems than others in a bilingual environment are some of the issues addressed by this book, which is a longitudinal study of how children learn to use more than one language. The family is assumed to be the key factor in these processes, and bilingual language development is placed firmly within an interactive context, as it is from this context that the development of childhood bilingualism can best be understood. Thus the aims of this book are to examine how young children become bilingual, and to show what factors predict early childhood bilingualism.

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Non-Fiction Language & Linguistics Linguistics Psycholinguistics Bilingualism & Multilingualism Education Teaching of Specific Groups with Special Educational Needs Teaching of Students with English as a Second Language TESOL Psychology Child & Developmental Psychology Language Acquisition

Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
How do Children Acquire Language?	p. 11
Where Do You Find Bilingual Children?	p. 33
What is Meant by Childhood Bilingualism?	p. 47
How can Child Language be Studied?	p. 68
What Language Backgrounds are There?	p. 88
What Opinions Do Parents Hold About Language?	p. 99
A Close Look at the Language of Young Children	p. 116
How Do Children in a Bilingual Community Learn Language?	p. 131
How Do Young Children Use Language and Do They Know What They are Doing?	p. 145
Which Parent has More Influence on the Language of the Home?	p. 172
What Predicts a Child's Language?	p. 190
How Do Young Children Become Bilingual?	p. 208
Bibliography	p. 231
Appendices: Language Background Questionnaire (QI)	p. 243
Appendices: Language Development Questionnaire (QII)	p. 256
Appendices: Dictionary of Common Words	p. 265
Index	p. 270
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