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Raising Children Bilingually Lenore Arnberg

Raising Children Bilingually By Lenore Arnberg

Raising Children Bilingually by Lenore Arnberg


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This book presents both current research findings and practical suggestions concerning the issues related to child bilingualism during the pre-school years. It is written with the needs of parents in mind but will be of use to healthcare personnel, pre-school teachers and undergraduate students in education, psychology and linguistics.

Raising Children Bilingually Summary

Raising Children Bilingually: The Pre-School by Lenore Arnberg

This book presents both current research findings and practical suggestions concerning this most important topic. Although written mainly with the needs of parents in mind, the book will also be of interest to others who are directly or indirectly involved in the issues related to child bilingualism during the pre-school years, e.g. healthcare personnel, pre-school teachers and undergraduate students in education, psychology and linguistics.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Immigrant parents: parents' role; emigration; adjusting to new culture; anomie; importance of parents' positive bilingual and bicultural development; factors in the development of a positive bilingual and bicultural identity in immigrant/minority group children. Part 2 Should I raise my children bilingually? Part 3 The effects of bilingualism on the child's development: intelligence; cognitive, language and social development. Part 4 Raising children bilingually in the family - research findings with regard to minority language: mixed-language families; families where both parents speak the minority language; children in Swedish mixed-language families. Part 5 How should I raise my child bilingually? Part 6 How children learn language: the role of outer reinforcement; pre-programmed to learn language; active role of the child; imitation and modelling. Part 7 Learning two languages - simultaneous and successive bilingualism. Part 8 Language strategies in the family. Part 9 Family goals with regard to degree of bilingualism: goals in the mixed-language, single-language family. Part 10 Practical suggestions for raising children bilingually inside the home: conversing with children; reading; singing, nursery rhymes and games; mass media in minority language learning. Part 11 Practical suggestions for raising children bilingually outside the home: compensating for lack of exposure to minority language; immigrant organizations; summer camps. Part 12 Meet several bilingual families: Polish-Swedish, English-Swedish, Spanish, Finnish-Kurdish-Swedish.

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GOR003077433
9780905028705
0905028708
Raising Children Bilingually: The Pre-School by Lenore Arnberg
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Channel View Publications Ltd
19870315
168
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