Childhood Bilingualism : Research on Infa

Childhood Bilingualism Research: An Introduction Erika Hoff and Peggy McCardle Processing Two Languages 1.Bilingual Speech Processing J. F. Werker, W. M. Weikum, and K. A. Yoshida (University of British Columbia); 2. When Infants Hear Two Languages: Interpreting Research on Early Speech Perception by Bilingual Children A. Fernald (Stanford University); 3. The Onset of Word Form Recognition in One Language and in Two M. M. Vihman (University of Wales, Bangor), J. A. G. Lum (University of Manchester), G. Thierry (Univ. of Wales, Bangor), S. Nakai (Univ. of Edinburgh), and T. Keren-Portnoy (University of Wales, Bangor) Speaking Two Languages 4. Bilingual First Language Acquisition in Perspective F. Genesee (McGill University); 5. Social Factors in Bilingual Development R. E. Eilers (University of Maine), B. Zurer Pearson (University of Massachusetts), A. B. Cobo-Lewis (University of Maine), Acquiring Literacy in Two Languages 6. Developing Literacy in English-Language Learners D. August (Centre for Applied Linguistics), M. Calderon (John Hopkins University) , Maria Carlo (University of Miami), and M. Nuttall (University of Houston); 7. Bilingualism at School E. Bialystok (York University) Perspectives on Childhood Bilingualism from Related Fields 8. Adult Bilingualism and Bilingual Development J. Kroll (The Pennsylvania State University.); 9. Finding the Points of Contact: Language Acquisition in Children Raised in Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Environment S. Waxman (Northwestern University) Closing Comments 10. Multiple Perspectives on Research on Childhood Bilingualism M. Crago (McGill University); 11. An Agenda for Research on Childhood Bilingualism - Peggy McCardle and Erika Hoff