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Risk and Protective Environmental Factors for Early Bilingual Language Acquisition (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,466
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Risk and Protective Environmental Factors for Early Bilingual Language Acquisition (Hardcover): Daniela Gatt, Ciara O'Toole

Risk and Protective Environmental Factors for Early Bilingual Language Acquisition (Hardcover)

Daniela Gatt, Ciara O'Toole

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Bilingual language exposure is highly variable, with wide-ranging influences on early language skills. This underscores the need for understanding what to expect in early language acquisition so that those with typical language development can be differentiated from those who are struggling or at risk, and so requiring early intervention. One of the key ways to look at language development in very young children is to investigate their vocabulary development, and for bilingual children, this means measuring their abilities in both languages. This book takes an important step in this direction: it documents the expressive vocabularies of children aged 16-45 months who were exposed to different language pairs and bilingual contexts, and investigates the risk and protective effects of various environmental factors. In each of the six studies, the vocabularies of typically-developing children were measured using the vocabulary checklist of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories and its adaptations to other languages. Developmental and language background questionnaires provided additional information on children's developmental history, risk factors for language impairment, language exposure, as well as parental education and occupation. This harmonised methodology was designed within COST Action IS0804 (Language Impairment in a Multilingual Society: Linguistic Patterns and the Road to Assessment). The outcomes of this cross-linguistic research contribute towards answering theoretical questions regarding early bilingual vocabulary acquisition. They also have clinical relevance, potentially assisting speech-language pathologists and those interested in early language development in distinguishing between clinically significant bilingual delays and the natural consequences of bilingual exposure. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: May 2018
First published: 2018
Editors: Daniela Gatt • Ciara O'Toole
Dimensions: 246 x 174 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-54449-9
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Language teaching & learning (other than ELT) > Language teaching theory & methods
Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching skills & techniques
Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Psycholinguistics > Bilingualism & multilingualism
Books > Social sciences > Education > Schools > Pre-school & kindergarten
Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching of specific groups > General
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LSN: 1-138-54449-3
Barcode: 9781138544499

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