APortrait of the Young in the New Multilingual Spain / / ed. by Carmen Pérez-Vidal, Maria Juan-Garau, Aurora Bel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Badia, Iris,; Barnes, Julia,; Barreña, Andoni,; Bel, Aurora,; Ezeizabarrena, Ma José,; Fuertes, Raquel Fernández,; García, Ana Llinares,; García, Iñaki,; Gràcia, Lluïsa,; Juan-Garau, Maria,; Liceras, Juana M.,; Mangado, Junkal Gutierrez,; Mayo, María del Pilar García,; Mora, Joan C.,; Perpiñá, Laia,; Pérez-Pereira, Migue,; Pérez-Tattam, Rocío,; Pérez-Vidal, Carmen,; Sanz, Cristina,; Sanz-Torrent, Mònica,; Serra, Miquel,; Serrat, Elisabet,; Siguan, Miquel,; Álvarez, Esther,
• HerausgeberIn: Bel, Aurora,; Juan-Garau, Maria,; Pérez-Vidal, Carmen,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Child Language and Child Development
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

The view that a bilingual speaker, or a speaker acquiring more than one language, is the sum of two —or more— monolinguals is proving to be a myth rather than a reality. Accordingly, this book provides a new profile of children and young people becoming bilingual or multilingual in today’s multicult...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• The Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Prologue
• Chapter 1. Issues in the Acquisition of Two or More Languages in Multilingual Environments
• Part 1: The Early Acquisition of Two or More Languages Within the Family Context
• Chapter 2. Early Galician/Spanish Bilingualism: Contrasts with Monolingualism
• Chapter 3. Early Trilingualism: The Development of Communicative Competence in English Alongside Basque and Spanish
• Chapter 4. Influence of the Linguistic Environment on the Development of the Lexicon and Grammar of Basque Bilingual Children
• Chapter 5. Null and Overt Subjects in the Developing Grammars (L1 English/ L1 Spanish) of Two Bilingual Twins
• Chapter 6. Contributions from Bilingual Specific Language Impairment in Catalan and Spanish to the Understanding of Typical and Pathological Language Acquisition
• Chapter 7. The Simultaneous Development of Narratives in English and Spanish
• Part 2: Bilingual and Multilingual Acquisition at Later Ages and in Instructional Settings
• Chapter 8. Classroom Bilingualism at an Early Age: Towards a More Natural EFL Context
• Chapter 9. First Language Influence on Second Language Acquisition: The Case of Immigrant L1 Soninke, Tagalog and Chinese Children Learning Catalan
• Chapter 10. Predicting Enhanced L3 Learning in Bilingual Contexts: The Role of Biliteracy
• Chapter 11. Learning Context Effects on the Acquisition of a Second Language Phonology
• Chapter 12. Non-Adult Long-Distance wh- Questions in the Non-Native Acquisition of English
• Index