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Authors: Ellen Bialystok
ISBN-13: 9780521632317, ISBN-10: 0521632315
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: March 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Describes how intellectual development of bilingual children differs from that of monolingual children.
Preface | ||
1 | Faces of Bilingualism | 1 |
Experiencing Bilingualism | 1 | |
Who Is Bilingual? | 4 | |
Methodological Complications | 6 | |
Where the Research Looks | 9 | |
Proficiency; or, When Is Enough Enough? | 10 | |
2 | Starting with One Language | 21 |
Landmarks of Language Acquisition | 23 | |
Approaches to Language Acquisition | 31 | |
Out of the Dichotomy | 49 | |
3 | And Adding Another | 56 |
Mastering the System | 58 | |
When It Can Be Learned | 71 | |
Learning Two Languages | 88 | |
4 | Language in the Mind | 90 |
In Search of Representations | 91 | |
Adults and the Problem of Concepts | 100 | |
Children, Language, and Thought | 105 | |
Representing Two Languages | 116 | |
5 | Thinking About Language | 121 |
Defining "Metalinguistic" | 122 | |
Metalinguistic: The Process | 129 | |
Is It Better with Two Languages? | 134 | |
Interpreting the Research | 143 | |
6 | Link to Literacy | 152 |
First Steps | 154 | |
Early Reading | 165 | |
Fluent Reading | 173 | |
The Difference in Reading | 179 | |
7 | Beyond Language | 182 |
Bilinguals and Intelligence | 183 | |
Languages and Cognition | 188 | |
Groundwork for Interactions | 190 | |
The Style of Cognition | 192 | |
The Symbol Basis of Quantity | 195 | |
Concepts and Creativity | 203 | |
Piecing It Together | 210 | |
8 | The Extent of the Bilingual Mind | 219 |
A Matter of Class | 220 | |
Time, Timing, and Timeliness | 224 | |
Educating Children | 234 | |
Who Am I? | 239 | |
Lessons for Cognition | 242 | |
Finally | 249 | |
References | 249 | |
Index | 281 |