Have you ever been told that raising your child to speak multiple languages will harm their development? Are teachers or other professionals suspicious of your efforts? Are you sometimes unsure if you are helping your child's language development, or are you uncertain where to start? It is increasingly recognised among researchers that, far from harming a child's development, being exposed to multiple languages from birth or early childhood can result in linguistic, creative and social advantages. The authors, all multilinguals themselves, parents of multilingual children, and researchers...
Have you ever been told that raising your child to speak multiple languages will harm their development? Are teachers or other professionals suspic...
David Singleton Julia Festman Simone E. Pfenninger
This book is a resource for graduate students and researchers in second language (L2) acquisition who are interested in language learning across the lifespan. The main goal is to survey and evaluate what is known about the linguistic-cognition-affect associations that occur in L2 learning from birth through senescence.
This book is a resource for graduate students and researchers in second language (L2) acquisition who are interested in language learning across the l...
