Searching for a book for very new students of child language

[isa barriere]

Dear Ken,

Just to say I fully support Barbara Z. Pearson's self-promotion.  I recently
read her book and have put it on the  the list to share with the supervisor
of the family and social workers in the non-profit organization where I work
and that serves more than 2,000 low SES children from very diverse
linguistic and cultural backgrounds.  I am also going to use it for
workshops I will be giving education professionals (teachers and assistant
teachers) of the same (older 3 to 5) children in the fall who in their
recent feedback on professional development sessions expressed the need to
know more about bilingual families.

To teach about infants and toddlers, I also very much like "when speech
comes to children" by Boysson-Bardies: it has a lot of information on
cross-linguistic studies.

Best,

Isabelle Barriere, PhD
Director of Policy for Research and Education
Yeled v'Yalda Early Childhood Center





On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Barbara Z. Pearson <
bpearson at research.umass.edu> wrote:

>
> Dear Ken,
>
> I hope I'm still in the grace period of "shameless self-promotion" for my
> book that came out in April (and that in any case I was going to bring to
> the attention of InfoChildes in the next few days).  Raising a Bilingual
> Child: A Step-by-Step Guide for Parents, by Zurer Pearson was recently
> released by Random House.
> http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400023349 (It's
> only $15, and even less already on Amazon : ).
>
> In it, I tried to accomplish the very goals you set forth:  a "highly
> readable translation of our best current understandings in the field,"
> that
> covers first and second language acquisition and tailors its suggestions
> for
> parents in the framework of Fishman's guidelines for language
> revitalization. It is written for parents (and I hope childcare workers)
> and
> so the scholarly apparatus is at a minimum, but I have careful
> page-by-page
> notes of all my references available on my website:
> http://www.zurer.com/pearson/bilingualchild so someone who wants to can go
> further in depth on any of its topics.
>
> I hope you will get hold of it and will give me your opinion of its
> suitability for your purpose.
>
> For my other Infochildes colleagues--please get copies for all your
> friends
> and relations!  (And think of where we can place reviews of it.)
>
> I might add for Ken that I think you will also enjoy reading Tom Roeper's
> book _The Prism of Grammar_.  I have tried to make sure that my
> descriptions
> of language and language acquisition are consistent with modern theories
> of
> grammar, but his book actually explains them (for first language
> acquisition), once again with parents in mind.
>
> Good luck with what sounds like a fascinating assignment.
>
> Best,
> Barbara Pearson
> ***********************************************************
> Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph.D.
> Research Associate, Project Coordinator
> Depts of Linguistics and Communication Disorders
> South College 226
> University of Massachusetts, Amherst
> Amherst MA 01003
>
> 413-545-5023
> fax: 545-2972
>
> bpearson at research.umass.edu
> http://www.umass.edu/aae/bp_indexold.htm
> http://www.zurer.com/pearson
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ken Reeder" <ken.reeder at ubc.ca>
> To: "Info-CHILDES" <info-childes at googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 5:08 PM
> Subject: Searching for a book for very new students of child language
>
>
> >
> > I've been given a nice opportunity to develop a hybrid course at UBC
> > at freshman or sophomore (1st/2nd yr) level entitled "Child Language
> > Development." What is particularly interesting (for me at any rate) is
> > that my students will be child care workers with minimal educational
> > background, and that they are all working with aboriginal preschool
> > children in British Columbia's southern interior. I'm searching for
> > good introductory and short books in two (perhaps overlapping) areas:
> > first language acquisition, and heritage language maintenance/
> > bilingualism. While the latter will probably be handled by way of
> > Multilingual Matters' fine materials, I'm still searching for just the
> > right title in first language acquisition. I'd like it to be a highly
> > readable translation of our best current understandings in the field
> > and manageable for these students. A tall order? Any suggestions?
> >
> > Glad to summarize your responses here if this fine discussion tool
> > doesn't already do so. Thanks, all.
> > >
> >
>
>
> >
>

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