Download or read book A Longitudinal Study of Language Acquisition and Literacy Development in Hispanic Chidren with Varying Degrees of Bilingualism written by Markeisha Nadrian Grant and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hispanic Child Languages written by John Grinstead and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 12 papers contributed by leading scholars in the field of language development, studying variants of the languages which originated on the Iberian peninsula. The contributors examine language development in both typically-developing and language-impaired populations who are learning language in diverse learning conditions, including language contact, as well as monolingual and bilingual Spanish, Catalan, Galician and Euskera. This expansion and diversification of the database for studying language development is important because it creates new opportunities for testing theoretical claims. Our contributors reconsider theoretical claims relating to the purported adult-like nature of young children’s grammars. While some conclude, for example, that children in Mexico possess very adult-like semantic-pragmatic competence in the domain of the pragmatic implicatures associated with existential quantifiers, others conclude that, in particular sociolinguistic registers of Chilean Spanish, children are late to develop adult-like competence in plural marking. Taken together, the contents of the volume illustrate how the linguistic diversity found in the distinct learning conditions in which language develops offers a wealth of opportunities to further our understanding of linguistic and non-linguistic cognitive development.
Download or read book Longitudinal Interactional Histories written by Amanda K. Kibler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the lives of five Mexican immigrant-origin youths in the United States, documenting their language and literacy journeys over an eight-year period from adolescence to young adulthood. In these qualitative case studies, the author uses a “longitudinal interactional histories approach” (LIHA) to explore literacy events in which the young people participated over time, telling the stories behind texts they created in order to better understand opportunities for bilingual and biliterate development available inside and outside of formal schooling. The book begins with an overview and exploration of theories and research underpinning the project, with a focus on countering minoritizing discourses faced by many multilingual immigrant youth and prioritizing the “goodness” of their experiences. The study’s methodology, including LIHA, is presented, before individual case studies of all five youth are explored. The book closes with a synthesis of these cases and exploration of pedagogical, policy, and research implications. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars of education, applied linguistics and sociolinguistics, as well as teachers and policy-makers working with bilingual and biliterate immigrant youth.
Download or read book Reading Acquisition written by Philip B. Gough and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1992. This book brings together the work of a number of distinguished international researchers engaged in basic research on beginning reading. Individual chapters address various processes and problems in learning to read - including how acquisition gets underway, the contribution of story listening experiences, what is involved in learning to read words, and how readers represent information about written words in memory. In addition, the chapter contributors consider how phonological, onset-rime, and syntactic awareness contribute to reading acquisition, how learning to spell is involved, how reading ability can be explained as a combination of decoding skill plus listening comprehension skill, and what causes reading difficulties and how to study these causes.
Download or read book Bilingual Language Acquisition written by Carmen Silva-Corvalán and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do children develop bilingual competence? Do bilingual children develop language in the same way as monolinguals? Set in the context of findings on language development, this book examines the acquisition of English and Spanish by two brothers in the first six years of their lives. Based on in-depth and meticulous analyses of naturalistic data, it explores how the systems of both languages affect each other as the children develop, and how different levels of exposure to each language influence the nature of acquisition. The author demonstrates that the children's grammars and lexicons follow a developmental path similar to that of monolinguals, but that cross-linguistic interactions affecting lexical, semantic and discourse-pragmatic aspects arise in Spanish when exposure to it diminishes around the age of four. The first of its kind, this original study is a must-read for students and researchers in bilingualism, child development, language acquisition and language contact.
Download or read book Language Development and Disorders in Spanish speaking Children written by Alejandra Auza Benavides and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prominent researchers from the US, Mexico, Chile, Colombia and Spain contribute experimental reports on language development of children who are acquiring Spanish. The chapters cover a wide range of dimensions in acquisition: comprehension and production; monolingualism and bilingualism; typical development, children who are at risk and children with language disorders, phonology, semantics, and morphosyntax. These studies will inform linguistic theory development in clinical linguistics as well as offer insights on how language works in relation to cognitive functions that are associated with when children understand or use language. The unique data from child language offer perspectives that cannot be drawn from adult language. The first part is dedicated to the acquisition of Spanish as a first or second language by typically-developing children, the second part offers studies on children who are at risk of language delays, and the third part focuses on children with specific language impairment, disorders and syndromes.
Download or read book Bilingual Language Development and Disorders in Spanish English Speakers written by Brian Goldstein and published by Brookes Publishing Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both SLPs and researchers must understand speech and language developments in children - and SLPs also need reliable assessment and intervention approaches for serving bilingual children with language disorders. This comprehensive text is one of the few to offer readers in-depth theoretical and practical information on these timely topics. brings together more than a dozen top researchers to present developmental data, best assessment practices, and appropriate intervention approaches in the following areas: language processing skills; lexical development; morpho-syntactic development; first language loss; grammatical impairments; semantic development; phonological development and disorders; narrative development and disorders; fluency; language intervention for bilingual speakers. The chapter outlines the major purposes of intervention for bilingual children with speech and language disorders, explores the debate over which language SLPs should use with bilingual children, and examines ways to promote gains in both languages. With this research-based text, SLPs will understand the complexity of language development in bilingual children and learn appropriate assessment and intervention approaches.
Download or read book A Mixed Methods Longitudinal Study written by Marlen Quintero Perez and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current longitudinal, mixed-methods dissertation explored how various Family Language Policy (FLP) factors (including parent and child language ideologies, practices, and management) influence Espa ol-English (hereafter, Espa Eng) bilingual students' home language maintenance/loss and their bilingual development. Espa Eng bilingual students, who have been commonly referred to as English Learners or Emergent Bilinguals, are students whose first or home language is Spanish and who are simultaneously or sequentially acquiring English. Despite their bilingualism, Espa Eng bilingual students attend schools in the United States that uphold monoglossic language ideologies, which promote English monolingualism and the separation of languages, failing to acknowledge and value their bilingual linguistic repertoire. Such monoglossic language ideologies, which promote English acquisition at the expense of students' home language development, puts Espa Eng bilingual students at risk of both losing their home language and being labeled as academically and linguistically deficient. The purpose of this study was to provide an anti-deficit perspective of Espa Eng bilingual students and their families by acknowledging and honoring their full linguistic repertoire, not solely their English proficiency. Interviews with eight parents and 18 Espa Eng bilingual students (nine of whom are in EO classrooms and nine of whom are in DL classrooms), along with dyadic family interviews and longitudinal English and Spanish tests of achievement results for these students, informed the results of this study. In regard to FLP, students in both EO and DL classrooms were exposed to a language separation ideology both at home and at school. Most students took roles as language teachers and translators, which was an exception to the language separation ideology, while other students rejected their parents Spanish-only rule at home. While parents and children in DL classrooms identified fear of home language loss and the necessity to speak Spanish at home as motivation for their language management, parents and children in EO classrooms cited their desire to compensate for the child's lack of exposure to Spanish instruction at school, as well as traveling and future job benefits, all as motivation for their language management. For the most part, with only a few exceptions, students in both DL and EO classrooms experienced growth in their Spanish and English levels of proficiency and development. This growth may have been a sign of home language maintenance. Despite their growth, students in DL classrooms outperformed students in EO classrooms in both Spanish and English proficiency and development. Even if the tests of achievement deemed students in EO classrooms' Spanish reading, math, and writing proficiencies to be limited, students' self-reported proficiencies highlighted how these students' Spanish speaking/verbal abilities were high in that they successfully translated for their loved ones, "teach [taught]" others how to speak either Spanish or English, and communicated with linguistically diverse individuals. The findings from this study have implications for ways in which parents, students, teachers, administrators, policy makers, and other key stakeholders can foster home language maintenance and more accurately measure and honor Espa Eng bilingual students' bilingual development, regardless of whether they are in DL or EO classrooms. All parents in this study aspired to raise bilingual and biliterate children but used different means (i.e., language of instruction) to meet such aspiration.
Download or read book Building on Strength written by Ana Celia Zentella and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2005-09-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an exciting new perspective on language socialization in Latino families. Tackling mainstream views of childhood and the role and nature of language socialization, leading researchers and teacher trainers provide a historical, political, and cultural context for the language attitudes and socialization practices that help determine what and how Latino children speak, read, and write. Representing a radical departure from the ways in which most educators have been taught to think about first language acquisition and second language learning, this timely volume: introduces the theories and methods of language socialization with memorable case studies of children and their families; highlights the diversity of Latino communities: offers important insights into the ways in which children learn to speak and read by negotiating overlapping and/or conflicting cultural models; and suggests universal practices to facilitate language socialization in multilingual communities, including applications for teachers.
Download or read book Language and Literacy in Bilingual Children written by D. Kimbrough Oller and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sets a high standard for rigor and scientific approach to the study of bilingualism and 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 as opposed to systematic training in both home and target languages. The rich landscape of outcomes reported in the volume will provide a frame for interpretation and understanding of effects of bilingualism for years to come.
Download or read book Assessment and Intervention Resource for Hispanic Children written by Hortense García Ramirez Kayser and published by Singular. This book was released on 1998 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessment and Intervention Resource for Hispanic Children is an illuminating resource guide that presents important theory and research as it applies to the clinical process with clients who are communicatively impaired and bilingual. Written by a leading bilingual clinician, this insightful clinical manual provides pertinent, up to date information on bilingual populations. Normative data are presented in clear tabular format and numerous references and resources are included for bilingual and monolingual clinicians, clients, and parents.
Download or read book The Emergence of Nominal Expressions in Spanish English Early Bilinguals written by Emma Ticio Quesada and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph examines the first syntactic unit in child language by presenting a longitudinal multiple-case study that focuses on the inner structure of nominal expressions in bilingual or monolingual child Spanish. This compilation of case studies offers the first insight on some of the properties of nominal expressions in bilingual or monolingual child Spanish and test some of the current theoretical proposals to analyze the main syntactic properties and operations within the nominal phrase. The findings of the study suggest new directions to address some core questions about monolingual and bilingual language acquisition taking as a point of departure the notion of economy, prevalent in the most recent theoretical discussion. Given the combination of empirical and theoretical discussions, this monograph will be appealing to a broad range of researchers in syntax and language acquisition.
Download or read book Developing Reading and Writing in Second language Learners written by Diane August and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2008 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reporting the findings of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth, this book concisely summarises what is known from empirical research about the development of literacy in language-minority children and youth, including development, environment, instruction, and assessment.
Download or read book Childhood Bilingualism written by Peggy D. McCardle and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains reports of research on bilingualism in infants and children as well as perspectives from those involved in cross-linguistic research on language development, literacy development in bilingual children, and psycholinguistic research on bilingualism in adults. It offers a fresh multidisciplinary perspective and next steps for research on childhood bilingualism.
Download or read book A Longitudinal Study of Language Development in Four Young Children Exposed to English and Swedish in the Home written by Lenore Arnberg and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Developing Literacy in Second language Learners written by National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth (U.S.) and published by Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc Incorporated. This book was released on 2006 with total page 669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reports the findings of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth. The formal charge to the panel—a distinguished group of expert researchers in reading, language, bilingualism, research methods, and education—was to identify, assess, and synthesize research on the education of language-minority children and youth with respect to their attainment of literacy. Funding for the project was provided to the Center for Applied Linguistics and SRI International by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences and the Office of English Language Acquisition, with additional funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development provided through the U.S. Department of Education. The authors review the state of knowledge on the development of literacy in language-minority children and youth, organized around five specific themes: *Development of Literacy in Second-Language Learners; *Cross-linguistic Relationships in Second-Language Learners; *Sociocultural Contexts and Literacy Development *Educating Language-Minority Students: Instruction and Professional Development; and *Student Assessment Each part begins with a synthesis chapter that spells out the research questions for the chapters in that part, provides background information, describes the methodology used, summarizes the empirical findings reported, addresses methodological issues, and makes recommendations for future research. The following chapters provide more detail on the individual studies reviewed for specific research questions. The volume includes two opening chapters, “Introduction and Methodology” and “Demographic Overview”; a closing chapter that summarizes the report, identifies cross-cutting themes, and makes recommendations for future research; and a CD-ROM providing a searchable database of research references. The audiences for this volume include researchers interested in the development of literacy in language-minority children and youth as well as those studying literacy more generally, and those concerned with improving the education of this population of students.
Download or read book Language and Literacy Development in Bilingual Settings written by Aydin Yücesan Durgunoglu and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores how English language learners develop both the oral language and literacy skills necessary for school success."--Résumé de l'éd.
