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Bilingualism in Development: Language, Literacy, and Cognition » (1st Edition)

Authors: Ellen Bialystok
ISBN-13: 9780521635073, ISBN-10: 0521635071
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: April 2010
Edition: 1st Edition

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