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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Annick De HouwerPublisher: Channel View Publications Ltd Imprint: Multilingual Matters Volume: No. 4 Dimensions: Width: 17.40cm , Height: 0.60cm , Length: 24.50cm Weight: 0.203kg ISBN: 9781847691682ISBN 10: 1847691684 Pages: 104 Publication Date: 27 May 2009 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1: Introducing the fancy term for bilingual development: Bilingual First Language Acquisition 2: From birth to the comprehension of words 3: Saying words and starting to combine them 4: Making sentences 5: Preschool and beyond 6: In conclusion: Bilingual learning in contextReviewsDe Houwer's book introduces readers to the research findings about bilingual first language acquisition through the charming stories of four imaginary bilingual children growing up in different contexts. Parents, students, and practitioners alike will discover what to expect from typical bilingual acquisition, including how individual typicalA can be! Elena Nicoladis, Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Canada The kind of bilingual development which starts very early, namely bilingual first language acquisition (BFLA), seems to attract much attention and spark much curiosity. How do children manage to acquire two languages simultaneously? In what ways does early bilingual exposure affect the course of their overall language development? Behind such questions lurks the yardstick of monolingualism, by which BFLA is often inappropriately evaluated. Now prominent BFLA expert Annick de Houwer has given us an introductory book with a most balanced and fair view of BFLA as a standard in its own right, tracing the bilingual development of four fictitious prototypical children. As always, her clarity of thought and writing makes the book accessible to anyone. Masayo Yamamoto, Professor of Bilingualism Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan Author InformationAnnick De Houwer has recently been appointed as Chair of Language Acquisition and Teaching at the University of Erfurt in Germany. She is also the new Director of the Language Center there. In addition, Professor De Houwer holds the title of Collaborative Investigator to the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.A.). Her PhD was based on a dissertation on bilingual acquisition, a topic she has since continued to work on steadily. Her book The Acquisition of Two Languages from Birth (CUP, 1990) is widely cited in the bilingual acquisition literature. Dr. De Houwer has also published on Dutch child language, attitudes towards child language, teen language, and intralingual subtitling. She has extensive editorial experience. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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