Growing up with Three Languages
Title | Growing up with Three Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Xiao-lei Wang |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2008-11-06 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1847695671 |
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.
Maintaining Three Languages
Title | Maintaining Three Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Xiao-lei Wang |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2015-10-22 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1783094486 |
The teenage years are a fascinating time in the life of any family, but what happens when the challenges of parenting teenagers are combined with the desire to help your children build on their multilingual abilities? In this follow-up to Growing up with Three Languages: Birth to Eleven, Xiao-lei Wang offers a unique insight into the dynamics of a multilingual family. She combines practical, evidence-based advice with rich detail from observations of her own family to offer support and inspiration on an aspect of multilingual parenting that has received comparatively little attention. By placing language within the wider context of teenagers’ cognitive and social development, this book will enable parents everywhere to help and guide their children through the next step in their multilingual journey.
How to Improve Your Foreign Language Immediately
Title | How to Improve Your Foreign Language Immediately PDF eBook |
Author | Boris Shekhtman |
Publisher | M S I Press |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 9780967990750 |
This book provides a unique set of tools designed to enhance an individual's success in communicati0n in a foreign language environment. The devices presented allow the speaker of a foreign language to demonstrate the level of his/her language more impressively. These techniques were developed and tested by the author with adult professionals in such varied fields as journalism, diplomacy, government, and international business.
Growing Up with Three Languages
Title | Growing Up with Three Languages PDF eBook |
Author | Xiao-Lei Wang |
Publisher | Multilingual Matters |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1847691064 |
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.
The Loom of Language
Title | The Loom of Language PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Bodmer |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 724 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780393300345 |
Here is an informative introduction to language: its origins in the past, its growth through history, and its present use for communication between peoples. It is at the same time a history of language, a guide to foreign tongues, and a method for learning them. It shows, through basic vocabularies, family resemblances of languages -- Teutonic, Romance, Greek -- helpful tricks of translation, key combinations of roots and phonetic patterns. It presents by common-sense methods the most helpful approach to the mastery of many languages; it condenses vocabulary to a minimum of essential words; it simplifies grammar in an entirely new way; and it teaches a language as it is actually used in everyday life.
Maintaining Your Second Language
Title | Maintaining Your Second Language PDF eBook |
Author | Eve Lindemuth Bodeux |
Publisher | |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 2016-03-31 |
Genre | Language acquisition |
ISBN | 9780997305401 |
This book is for advanced learners of a second language such as translators, interpreters, teachers, the parents of bilingual children, journalists, international business people, heritage speakers and other language lovers. It contains practical strategies, tips and resources related to maintaining a foreign language. It targets those who are already fluent in a second (or third) language and who are looking for ways to maintain their skills long-term. This book will help advanced foreign language speakers find their path to continued language fluency and linguistic success. It provides innovative approaches to self-study, the benefits of singing even if you can't carry a tune, the role of technology in language maintenance and retention, how to play word and other games, and much more. It also provides links and references to many helpful language-related resources. If you love languages, this book is for you!
Family Language Policy
Title | Family Language Policy PDF eBook |
Author | C. Smith-Christmas |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2015-10-29 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1137521813 |
Based on an eight-year study of a family on the Isle of Skye, Scotland, this book explores why the children in the family do not often speak Gaelic, despite the adults' best efforts to use the language with them, as well as the children's attendance at a Gaelic immersion school.