Language Processing in bilingual children

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Language processing in bilingual children explores the linguistic and cognitive abilities of bilingual children. The results of early studies in this area were influenced by f'oughly constructed research designs and political agendas that determined what, the acceptable findings ought to be. ^ However, research over the last decade has produced a far more complex picture of the capabilities of bilingual children. The ten papers in this -volume place it firmly at the forefront of current research. They explore ' the performance of bilingual children over a range of language uses, and use linguistics, psychology, and educational theory to analyze them. All the . studies report original research, and all are sensitive to the important ^ influences of social and educational factors that w^re frequently ignored in <./ early research. The evidence converges to show that there is no universal ^ '' advantage oi- deficit for bilingual children,^ tmt in sbme situations there are ;... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Language processing in bilingual children explores the linguistic and cognitive abilities of bilingual children. The results of early studies in this area were influenced by f'oughly constructed research designs and political agendas that determined what, the acceptable findings ought to be. ^ However, research over the last decade has produced a far more complex picture of the capabilities of bilingual children. The ten papers in this -volume place it firmly at the forefront of current research. They explore ' the performance of bilingual children over a range of language uses, and use linguistics, psychology, and educational theory to analyze them. All the . studies report original research, and all are sensitive to the important ^ influences of social and educational factors that w^re frequently ignored in <./ early research. The evidence converges to show that there is no universal ^ '' advantage oi- deficit for bilingual children,^ tmt in sbme situations there are ; implications fór the achievement of high levéis of language proficiency and for success;in school. Finally, the implications of these findings for policy setting and the development of bilingual education programmes are explored.
Contributors: Ellen Bialystok, Herlinda Cancino, Jim Cummins, Jeanne De 4 Temple, Raphael Diaz, Kenji Hakuta, Janice Johnson, Cynthia Klingler, Marguerite El Malakoff, Sara Schley, Michael Sharwood Smith, Catherine ^ > Snow, lan Vi/atson, Lily Wong Fillmore T ^ Vissza