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Nemeth, Karen N.; Erdosi, Valeria – Young Children, 2012
As infant/toddler programs encounter growing diversity, they need to reenvision the impact they have on children and families in all areas of practice, from recruiting new enrollees to stocking classrooms to changing the ways adults interact with children and families with different languages and from different cultures. What happens on the first…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Day Schools
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Prieto, H. Victoria – Young Children, 2009
The belief that a child has to abandon his home language to learn English implies that the young brain has limited learning capacity. Early childhood teachers need to help families understand that children can learn two languages at the same time. What matters is that the infant/toddler is in an effective language-learning environment, whether it…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Language Usage, Preschool Teachers
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Saunders, George – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1982
Criticizes some recently published views on the difficulty of raising children bilingually (e.g., tolerance of children's deviations from adult speech, the influence of friends, and finding an adequate vocabulary for a foreign environment). Also discusses the use of children as subjects in language research. (EKN)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Child Rearing, Language Acquisition
Clark, Eve V. – 2003
This book examines children's acquisition of a first language, the stages they go through, and how they use language as they learn. There are 16 chapters in 4 parts. After chapter 1, "Acquiring Languages: Issues and Questions," Part 1, "Getting Started," offers (2) "In Conversation with Children," (3) "Starting…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Child Development, Child Language
Helle, Tuija – 1985
French immersion programs were initiated in Ontario and Quebec 20 years ago in the search for more effective second language instruction methods, and by September 1975 had spread to all Canadian provinces. The emphasis is on communication, with subject matter taught in French. The programs have been very effective, resulting in successful…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
McGlothlin, Martha; Loera, Barbara – Texas Child Care, 1994
Notes the difficulty caregivers sometimes have identifying communication disorders in bilingual children. Offers advice on identification of such problems, bilingual development, effective observation of children in seven areas of communication, ways to encourage bilingualism in preschool children, and experts who can help diagnose speech-language…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Bilingualism, Child Caregivers, Child Language
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Arnberg, Lenore – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1984
To raise a child bilingually, parents may need assistance with increased second language input from outside the home. One way to do this is through the use of mother tongue playgroups for young children. (SL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, English, Ethnic Groups
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Aldridge, Michelle; Waddon, Alun – Language Awareness, 1995
Results of a survey of 200 parents attending baby and child clinics in North Wales show that parents know less about language development than about other areas of child development. Results suggest that both monolingual and bilingual parents and their children would benefit from improved information on how to facilitate language development. (43…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Foreign Countries, Hypothesis Testing
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Bergen, Benjamin K. – Journal of Child Language, 2001
Describes characteristics of the Native Esperanto of eight speakers, ranging from age 6 to 14 years. Found bilingualism and nativization effects, differentiating native from non-native Esperanto speech. Among these effects are loss or modification of the accusative case, phonological reduction, attrition of tense/aspect system, and pronominal…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bilingualism, Child Language, Children
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Edelsky, Carole – 1986
A year-long study of the writing development of 27 first through third graders in an English/Spanish bilingual program was conducted during the 1980-81 school year. Samples of the children's writing were collected at four intervals, coded for computer tallying, and analyzed in terms of code-switching, spelling, punctuation and segmentation,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education Programs, Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Child Language
Paleka, Hinano; Hammond, Ormond – Kamehameha Journal of Education, 1992
Hawaii has a strong crusade to revive the Hawaiian language to preserve the Hawaiian culture. The article examines the events leading up to the implementation of Hawaiian language immersion programs through the State Department of Education and lists specific immersion school goals and strategies. (SM)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Cultural Awareness, Elementary Secondary Education
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Blasi, Mary Jane – Childhood Education, 2005
Many parents in the United States who speak and value a language other than English feel torn-between wanting their children to develop age-appropriate fluency and literacy in the language of their heritage, and wanting their children to acquire English as quickly and flawlessly as possible. When parents support communication in and acquisition of…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Heritage Education, Native Language Instruction
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Zlatic, Larisa; Macneilage, Peter; Matyear, Christine L.; Davis, Barbara L. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1997
Examines the phonetic characteristics of babbling by a pair of fraternal twins raised in a bilingual environment (English/Serbian). The study focused on the basic articulatory form of babbling, the impact of twinship on babbling patterns, and whether effects specific to one or another of the ambient languages could be observed. (30 references)…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), Family Environment
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Thompson, Linda – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1994
Presents the findings of an ethnolinguistic study conducted in northeastern England on children's language behavior during their first term in school. The article combines two theoretical perspectives in an analytical description of this behavior presented in three levels of data analysis. (23 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis
Negnevitskaya, Elena J. – 1990
A discussion of bilingualism in young children in the Soviet Union looks at the three main forms of early bilingualism (bilingual home environment, different languages spoken at home and in school, and second language instruction in school), notes the challenges they pose for development and maintenance of bilingual skills, and then describes a…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques
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