The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingualism (PDF)

By: Edited by Annick De Houwer and Lourdes Ortega

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Synopsis: The ability to speak two or more languages is a common human experience, whether for children born into bilingual families, young people enrolled in foreign language classes, or mature and older adults learning and using more than one language to meet life’s needs and desires. This Handbook offers a developmentally oriented and socially contextualized survey of research into individual bilingualism, comprising the learning, use, and, as the case may be, unlearning of two or more spoken and signed languages and language varieties. A wide range of topics is covered, from ideologies, policy, the law, and economics, to exposure and input, language education, measurement of bilingual abilities, attrition and forgetting, and giftedness in bilinguals. Also explored are cross- and intradisciplinary connections with psychology, clinical linguistics, second language acquisition, education, cognitive science, neurolinguistics, contact linguistics, and sign language research.

Book Quality:: Excellent
ISBN-13:: 9781107179219
Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Date of Addition:: 12/07/18
Copyrighted By:: Cambridge University Press
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Disability-Related, Education, Social Studies, Language Arts, Foreign Language Study
Submitted By:: Debbie Morton
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Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.