one-parent one-language/Grammont's principle

[Annabelle David]

 Hello Betty and everybody else,

I am not sure about overall general effects of mixing and but you might be
interested to know that in my longitudinal study of 13 children growing up
with French and English in One parent - One language families, I found a
correlation between the code-switching of the parents and thta of the
children.


Annabelle David, PhD
University of Newcastle 

-------Original Message-------
 
From: Madalena Cruz-Ferreira
Date: 04/19/05 06:43:57
To: Betty Yu; info-childes at mail.talkbank.org
Subject: RE: one-parent one-language/Grammont's principle
 
Hi Betty,
 
One of my students, Hazel See, has done some work on this here in Singapore
for Mandarin-English bilinguals.
She has presented two papers, where she argues that a mixed-language policy
is no different from the OPOL policy in nurturing competent child
multilingualism, and that child mixes are evidence not of confusion but of
pragmatic fluency that matches that of the child's environment.
The references are:
 
See, H. L. C. (2004). The mixed languages policy as a viable alternative to
the one person-one language policy: a case study. Paper presented to the 6th
Conference on General Linguistics, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.
 
See, H. L. C. (2004). Exploring the role of caregivers' pragmatic discourse
strategies in mixed languages policy bilingualism. Paper presented to the
Second Lisbon Meeting on Language Acquisition, Faculdade de Letras,
Universidade de Lisboa.
 
Hazel is with the info-childes network, so she might want to add details on
her research.
 
Madalena
 
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Madalena Cruz-Ferreira
Dept. English Language and Literature
National University of Singapore
ellmcf at nus.edu.sg
http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellmcf/
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org
> [mailto:info-childes at mail.talkbank.org]On Behalf Of Betty Yu
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 April, 2005 1:07 PM
> To: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org
> Subject: one-parent one-language/Grammont's principle
>
>
> Hello all,
>
>   I am curious if there is convergence in current research on the
> usefulness (or not) of separating languages as a strategy for
> teaching
> children more than one language (e.g., one-parent/one-language,
> one-situation/one-language). Is there evidence that children really
> become confused by mixed linguistic input given that there's evidence
> that code-switching and other language mixing behaviors are quite
> normal in bilingual communities? I'm especially interested in this
> topic as it relates to children with language impairments.
>
> Thank you for your attention.
>
> Betty
> Doctoral Student at UC Berkeley/SFSU
>
>
>
 
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