Another new book from Multilingual Matters

[Kathryn King]

LANGUAGE AND LITERACY IN BILINGUAL CHILDREN

Edited by D. Kimbrough Oller and Rebecca E. Eilers (University of Maine)

DESCRIPTION
This book sets a high standard for rigor and scientific approach to the
study of bilingualism and provides new insights regarding the critical
issues of theory and practice, including the interdependence of
linguistic knowledge in bilinguals, the role of socioeconomic status,
the effect of different language usage patterns in the home, and the
role of schooling by single-language immersion as opposed to systematic
training in both home and target languages.  The rich landscape of
outcomes reported in the volume will provide a frame for interpretation
and understanding of effects of bilingualism for years to come.

CONTENTS
Section A:  Background 
1. Assessing the Effects of Bilingualism D. K. Oller& B.Z. Pearson; 2.
An Integrated Approach to 
Evaluating Effects of Bilingualism in Miami School Children  D. K. Oller
& R. E. Eilers. 
Section B: Overall Results on Language use and Standardized Test
Performance
3. Bilingualism and Cultural Assimilation in Miami Hispanic Children R.
E. Eilers, D. K. Oller & 
A. B. Cobo-Lewis; 4. Effects of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education on
Oral and Written English Skills 
A. B. Cobo-Lewis, B. Z. Pearson, R. E. Eilers & V. C. Umbel; 5.  Effects
of Bilingualism and 
Bilingual Education on Oral and Written Spanish Skills A. B. Cobo-Lewis,
B. Z. Pearson, R. E. Eilers 
& V. C. Umbel; 6. Interdependence of Spanish and English Knowledge in
Language and Literacy 
among Bilingual Children A. B. Cobo-Lewis, R. E. Eilers, B Z Pearson &
V. C. Umbel.
Section C: Probe Studies on Complex Language Capabilities 
7. Narrative Competence among Monolingual and Bilingual School Children
in Miami B. Z. Pearson; 8. Command of the 
Mass/count Distinction in Bilingual and Monolingual Children V. C.
Mueller Gathercole;  9. Grammatical Gender in 
Bilingual and Monolingual Children V. C. Mueller Gathercole; 10.
Monolingual and Bilingual Acquisition 
V. C. Mueller Gathercole; 11. The Ability of Bilingual and Monolingual
Children to Perform Phonological Translation  
D. K. Oller & A. B. Cobo-Lewis.
Section D:  A Retrospective View of the Research
12. Balancing Interpretations Regarding Effects of Bilingualism D. K.
Oller & R. E. Eilers

EDITOR INFORMATION
D. Kimbrough Oller, Professor and Chair of the Department of
Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Maine, is 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.

Child Language and Child Development No.2       March 2002      Format:
210 x 148mm     312pp
Hbk ISBN 1-85359-571-3  £49.95/ US$74.95/ CAN$99.95
Pbk ISBN 1-85359-570-5  £19.95/ US$29.95/ CAN$39.95     
        

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