Childhood Bilingualism: Research On Infancy Through School

Description:
This book contains reports of research on bilingualism in infants and children as well as perspectives from those involved in cross-linguistic research on language development, literacy development in bilingual children, and psycholinguistic research on bilingualism in adults. It offers a fresh multidisciplinary perspective and next steps for research on childhood bilingualism.

Table of Contents:
Childhood Bilingualism Research: An Introduction Erika Hoff and Peggy McCardle; Processing Two Languages; 1. Bilingual Speech Processing J. F. Werker, W. M. Weikum, and K. A. Yoshida (University of British Columbia); 2. When Infants Hear Two Languages: Interpreting Research on Early Speech Perception by Bilingual Children A. Fernald (Stanford University); 3. The Onset of Word Form Recognition in One Language and in Two M. M. Vihman (University of Wales, Bangor), J. A. G. Lum (University of Manchester), G. Thierry (Univ. of Wales, Bangor), S. Nakai (Univ. of Edinburgh), and T. Keren-Portnoy (University of Wales, Bangor); Speaking Two Languages; 4. Bilingual First Language Acquisition in Perspective F. Genesee (McGill Univ.); 5. Social Factors in Bilingual Development R. E. Eilers (University of Maine), B. Zurer Pearson (University of Massachusetts), A. B. Cobo-Lewis (University of Maine),; Acquiring Literacy in Two Languages; 6. Developing Literacy in English-Language Learners D. August (Centre for Applied Linguistics), M. Calderon (John Hopkins University), Maria Carlo (University of Miami), and M. Nuttall (University of Houston); 7. Bilingualism at School E. Bialystok (York University); Perspectives on Childhood Bilingualism from Related Fields; 8. Adult Bilingualism and Bilingual Development J. Kroll (The Pennsylvania State University.); 9. Finding the Points of Contact: Language Acquisition in Children Raised in Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Environment S. Waxman (Northwestern University); Closing Comments; 10. Multiple Perspectives on Research on Childhood Bilingualism M. Crago (McGill University); 11. An Agenda for Research on Childhood Bilingualism - Peggy McCardle and Erika Hoff.

Author Biography:
Peggy McCardle is a research administrator at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, a pre-eminent funding agency of biomedical and behavioural research. She is responsible for a research portfolio on language, bilingualism and biliteracy development and disorders within the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Erika Hoff is a professor of psychology at Florida Atlantic University, in Davie, Florida. She studies language development and bilingualism.