Language and Literacy in Bilingual Children

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D. Kimbrough Oller, Rebecca E. Eilers
Multilingual Matters, 2002 - 310 páginas
This volume stems from research conducted during the 1990s in Miami, Florida, under a grant from the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development. A collaborating group of scholars trained in and deeply committed to empirical research on language acquisition in both English and Spanish access the effects of bilingual learning in significant new ways. The research takes into account such factors as the capabilities and backgrounds of bilingual students in both their languages, the interdependence of linguistic knowledge in bilinguals, the role of socio-economic status, the effect of different language use patterns in the home, and the role of single-language immersion in school as compared to inclusion of both home and target languages. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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An Integrated Approach to Evaluating Effects
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Overall Results on Language Use and Standardized Test
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Effects of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education on Oral
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D. Kimbrough Oller, is Professor and Plough Chair of Excellence at the University of Memphis School of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology. He is author of over 150 articles in language and speech, and an international authority in language learning. His research on English and Spanish-learning children as well as bilingual children is widely published, and his earlier book The Emergence of the Speech Capacity brings together results of his research of thirty years. Rebecca E. Eilers is Professor of Psychology and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Maine. For nearly thirty years she has been a leading figure in infant speech perception and young child language as the primary author of a substantial literature on development of linguistic capabilities in children with Spanish and/or English in the home.

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