Risk and Protective Environmental Factors for Early Bilingual Language Acquisition (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Gatt, Daniela; O'Toole, Ciara

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book documents the expressive vocabularies of bilingual children aged 16-45 months who were exposed to different language pairs and bilingual contexts, and investigates the risk and protective effects of various environmental factors in language development. It originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351003452
• Artikelnr.: 57901934

Autorenporträt

Daniela Gatt is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication Therapy at the University of Malta. She is a speech-language pathologist and lectures on childhood communication development and disorders. Her research interests relate to the lexical development of children with and without language impairment in bilingual contexts. Ciara O'Toole is a Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at University College Cork, Ireland. She is a speech and language therapist with teaching and research interests in the area of paediatric communication development and disorders. She has particular interest in bilingual language acquisition and children who are acquiring Irish as a first/second language.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Risk and protective environmental factors for early bilingual
language acquisition 1. Parent report of early lexical production in
bilingual children: a cross-linguistic CDI comparison 2. Bilingual language
acquisition in a minority context: using the Irish-English Communicative
Development Inventory to track acquisition of an endangered language 3.
Bilingual vocabulary production in young children receiving
Maltese-dominant exposure: individual differences and the influence of
demographic and language exposure factors 4. The impact of a fi
rst-generation immigrant environment on the heritage language: productive
vocabularies of Polish toddlers living in the UK and Ireland 5. A CDI study
of bilingual English-Hebrew children - frequency of exposure as a major
source of variation 6. The relationship between fi rst language (L1) and
second language (L2) lexical development in young Turkish-German children