| Growing Up with Three Languages: Birth to Eleven Contributor(s): Wang, Xiao-Lei (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 1847691072 ISBN-13: 9781847691071 Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited OUR PRICE: $98.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2008 Annotation: This book is for parents who live in a foreign country and intend to raise their children in their own heritage language(s). It offers helpful suggestions for this challenging situation and provides useful strategies in the daily interactions between parents and children. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Bilingual Education - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 401.93 |
| LCCN: 2008026646 |
| Series: Parents' and Teachers' Guides |
| Physical Information: (1.10 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is based on an eleven-year observation of two children who were simultaneously exposed to three languages from birth. It tells the story of two parents from different cultural, linguistic, and ethnic-racial backgrounds who joined to raise their two children with their heritage languages outside their native countries. It also tells the children's story and the way they negotiated three cultures and languages and developed a trilingual identity. It sheds light on how parental support contributed to the children's simultaneous acquisition of three languages in an environment where the main input of the two heritage languages came respectively from the father and from the mother. It addresses the challenges and the unique language developmental characteristics of the two children during their trilingual acquisition process. |
Contributor Bio(s): Wang, Xiao-Lei: - Xiao-lei Wang is Professor and Acting Dean of the School of Education at Pace University, USA. She is the author of Growing up with Three Languages: Birth to Eleven (Multilingual Matters, 2008) and Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family (Multilingual Matters, 2011). She is a regular speaker on child development and parenting at local, national and international parents' associations and academic conferences. |