Bilingualism and plurilingualism in the family

The Conversation, 29 July 2019 People often say that babies are like little sponges — with their ability to soak up language quickly and easily. Yet much of the early research on language acquisition has focused on young infants learning only one language. This research was guided by an implicit assumption that learning one language is the usual and optimal way to learn to talk. This idea...

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Carmen Silva-Corvalán, University of Southern California Jeanine Treffers-Daller, University of Reading View all contributors Cambridge University Press, May 2019, ISBN: 9781108718745 With contributions from leading scholars of bilingualism, Language Dominance in Bilinguals is the first publication to survey different approaches to language dominance, along with suggested avenues for further...

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La voce di Bolzano, 8 agosto 2019 Un’educazione plurilingue, sin dalla più tenera età, ha effetti positivi su tutti gli aspetti cognitivi dei bambini, e migliora le competenze non solo in campo linguistico ma in tutto ciò che ha a che fare con la creatività. E’ questo il risultato che emerge dal progetto di ricerca “MELA – Mehrsprachig Ladinisch“, presentato questa mattina (7...

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Par Sylvie Blanchet Publié le 7 août 2019 à 10h30 Il n’y a, à mes yeux, pas grand-chose de plus passionnant que de voir un tout petit s’emparer du langage … Quelle immense découverte : on peut se faire comprendre, on peut solliciter de l’aide, on peut donner son avis, bref on entre de plain-pied dans ce que l’espèce humaine a de plus spécifique ! Quelle immense...

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Being multilingual can be a stronger part of one's identity than race By Susanna Zaraysky - July 15, 2019   For those of us who are bilingual or multilingual, our languages may shape our identities and cultural affiliations more so than race, economic status or religion. With about 20% of children in the US population speaking another language at home, and more kids going to...

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January 2019 Source: AThEME In this article, researchers focus on disentangling the effects of bilingualism and dyslexia in tasks assessing phonological abilities of monolingual and bilingual, impaired/non-impaired children regarding morphological abilities, grammatical abilities and implicit learning. Results suggest that bilingualism, far from being a disadvantage, can offer linguistic and...

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Cuando los niños empiezan a hablar cometen muchos errores lingüísticos que son normales por la edad que tienen y por la confusión que le generan las palabras, las oraciones y a su vez armar frases enteras: “mi mamá condució hasta el colegio”, “me distrajieron en clase”, etc. Muchos padres siempre se preguntan el por qué sus hijos están hablando de esa manera, por qué están...

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Bron: Blog van Sophia Vassiliou, 22.04.2019 Weer een conclusie van de wetenschap; de taalwetenschap in dit geval: het gaat er niet om welke moedertaal je hebt als kind, maar of je ouders op hoog of laag niveau met je praten. Kinderen met ouders die in rijk taalgebruik tegen hen praten, hebben volgens dit onderzoek een grotere woordenschat dan kinderen met ouders die dit niet doen. Ik ben het...

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Elke Montanari | Julie A. Panagiotopoulou Verlag UTB, Januari 2019, ISBN 9783838551401 Das Buch bringt den Lesenden Zwei- und Mehrsprachigkeit als Normalität in Bildungsinstitutionen nahe. Bislang wird die migrationsbedingte mehrsprachige familiale Alltagspraxis von Kindern und Jugendlichen als Abweichung von einer monolingualen Norm betrachtet. Zwar ist die Förderung von Mehrsprachigkeit in...

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Maria R. Coady, Multilingual Matters, 10 April 2019, ISBN: 9781788923255 This book examines the educational gaps that multilingual students in rural communities experience. It argues that responsive, successful relationships between schools and multilingual families are a crucial aspect of all educators’ work and that no single strategy will work for all families. Rural multilingual family...

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Vroeg, Kennisplatform voor Jonge Kind, 29 april 2019 Ten onrechte wordt vaak gedacht dat meertaligheid lastig is voor jonge kinderen. Veelal geldt juist het tegenovergestelde. Een meertalig kind leert niet alleen op latere leeftijd gemakkelijker nieuwe talen, maar kunnen hier ook in sociaal opzicht mee gebaat zijn. Wel vormt het signaleren, screenen en diagnosticeren van een mogelijk...

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26 febrero 2019 Café. Cuando leemos esa palabra, en nuestro cerebro no solo se activan áreas cerebrales típicas del lenguaje, sino también áreas sensoriales olfativas. Igualmente, al leer la palabra “noche” nuestras pupilas se dilatan, como si nos encontrásemos en situación de oscuridad, mientras que al leer la palabra día, se contraen. Como seres sociales que somos, desarrollamos...

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Psychology Today, François Grosjean, 2d April 2019 Does monolingualism constrain the way we see the world? Aneta Pavlenko has been my coblogger for close to five years. She has written wonderful posts in her areas of specialty and has greatly diversified our offerings. Aneta has decided to leave our blog, much to my regret, but her posts will remain as part of the resource we offer readers...

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Source: The Conversation, February 26, 2019 Have you ever worried in your student years or later in life that time may be starting to run out to achieve your goals? If so, would it be easier conveying this feeling to others if there was a word meaning just that? In German, there is. That feeling of panic associated with one’s opportunities appearing to run out is called...

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Language has the power to shape cognition, behavior, and even the form and function of the brain. Technological and scientific developments have recently yielded an increasingly diverse set of tools with which to study the way language changes neural structures and processes. Here, we review research investigating the consequences of multilingualism as revealed by brain imaging. A key feature of...

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da Redazione ABMMar 27, 2019 Andare a piedi o viaggiare con il tram per le strade di Zurigo offre sempre degli spunti di riflessione sull’uso reale delle lingue all’interno delle famiglie e su come esse siano percepite dalla società locale. La Svizzera è in questo senso un laboratorio linguistico a cielo aperto molto interessante visto che il plurilinguismo delle persone è vissuto in modo...

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In che lingua giochiamo oggi? E se i nostri bimbi ai giardini un giorno facessero la conta in arabo? In che lingua cantiamo oggi? In che lingua impariamo una storia? E se a casa di Erisa un pomeriggio dopo scuola la mamma raccontasse i viaggi di Skanderberg in albanese? E poi tutti a fare Girotondo…in italiano! Di solito sono i bimbi a giocare con i “se”, a chiedere il perché delle cose,...

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Edited by: Paula Kalaja, Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer Format: Paperback - 312 pagesRelated Formats: Hardback PDF EPUBISBN: 9781788922593Published: 31 Mar 2019 by Multilingual Matters This book brings together empirical studies from around the world to help readers gain a better understanding of multilinguals, ranging from small children to elderly people, and their lives. The chapters focus...

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Source : Radio-Canada, 30 janvier 2019 La Presse canadienne Une étude indique que les bébés vivant dans un milieu où plus d'une langue est utilisée sont plus attentifs que les nourrissons qui n'entendent qu'une seule langue. Des chercheurs de l'Université York, à Toronto, estiment que cet avantage en matière d'attention peut se manifester dès l'âge de six mois,...

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Bildungsraum.at Mehrere Sprachen zu sprechen ist gesund. Lesen Sie hier, was das Sprachenlernen mit unserem Gehirn macht, warum Mehrsprachigkeit Demenz verzögern kann und weswegen mehrsprachige Teams besonders kreativ beim Problemlösen sind. Jeder, der schon einmal auf Reisen im Ausland war oder an einer internationalen Konferenz teilgenommen hat, weiß um die Vorteile von...

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Family spaces are considered deeply private environments—taking recording devices into the family home is thus usually not an easy task. And it is even harder to make speakers record themselves without the researcher present. In this article, I describe the development of a recording device for mobile phones as a device to be used in multilingualism research. I will look at how qualitative...

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Quelle: Science.lu

Mehrsprachigkeit fördert die geistige Flexibilität. Umso mehr, wenn von Kind an der offene Umgang mit Sprachen gelernt wird, so Pascale Engel de Abreu von der Uni Luxemburg.

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Bron: Heit and Mem, 17 december 2018 Marinella Orioni komt uit Nederland, woont al jaren in Parijs en voedt haar twee kinderen drietalig op. Drie talen inderdaad! Waarom heeft ze hiervoor gekozen? En hoe gaat dat in de praktijk, meertalig opvoeden? Marinella schreef er al eerder een boek over en komt nu met een nieuw boek: ‘Het meertalige kind. Een eerste kennismaking’. Meer lesen......

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