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Active Trilingualism in Early Childhood: The Motivating Role of Caregivers in Interaction
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Chevalier, Sarah – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2012
The present paper is concerned with the language development of two young children from two different families growing up exposed to three languages. The children live in Switzerland and have been exposed to English, French and Swiss German from infancy. The focus is on the children's production of these languages, and the contextual and affective…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Child Language
Functional Analysis of the Contents of Maternal Speech to Infants of 5 and 13 Months in Four Cultures: Argentina, France, Japan, and the United States.
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Bornstein, Marc H.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1992
Mothers in Argentina, France, Japan, and the United States were observed interacting with their 5- and 13-month-old infants. Maternal speech was classified into expressions concerning affect and information. Mothers in all cultures used both classifications with their infants and spoke to older infants more than younger infants. (BC)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Caregiver Speech, Child Language
De l'Apprentissage d'une Langue Etrangere...a l'Acquisition de la Lanque Maternelle (From Learning a Foreign Language to the Mastery of the Mother Tongue).
Raillard, Sabine – Francais dans le Monde, 1996
Focuses on factors influencing the mastery of a foreign language and one's native tongue. Both the child-mother relationship and the teacher-student relationship greatly influence the desire and propensity of an individual to acquire fluency in the language being taught. To learn to speak signifies a wish to use a language and become immersed in…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Auditory Stimuli, Child Language, Elementary Education