[lg policy] book notice: Growing Up with Two Languages: A Practical Guide for the Bilingual Family, 3rd Edition

[Harold Schiffman]

Growing Up with Two Languages: A Practical Guide for the Bilingual
Family, 3rd Edition
Published: 2011
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
                http://www.routledge.com/

Book URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415598521/

Author: Una Cunningham-Andersson



Please Note: This is a new version of a previously announced text.

The lives of many families involve contact with more than one language and
culture on a daily basis. Growing Up with Two Languages is aimed at the
many parents and professionals who feel uncertain about the best way to go
about helping children gain maximum benefit from the multilingual situation.

This best-selling guide is illustrated by glimpses of life from interviews with
fifty families from all around the world. The trials and rewards of
life with two
languages and cultures are discussed in detail, and followed by practical
advice on how to support the child's linguistic development.

Features of this third edition include:

*a dedicated website with new and updated Internet resources:
http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415598521/

*a new chapter giving the perspective of adults who have themselves grown
up with more than one language

*a new chapter presenting research into bilingual language acquisition with
information about further reading

*new and updated first-hand advice and examples throughout.

http://linguistlist.org/issues/22/22-2812.html

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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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