Bilingualism

The Basics
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-032-72852-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm

Reihe: The Basics

Bilingualism: The Basics provides the reader with a state-of-the-art overview of research into individual bilingualism. Very generally, a bilingual individual is someone who has two or more languages embedded in their life. The majority of the world is either bilingual or multilingual. Few people have never had any exposure to another language – true monolingualism is rare! But bilinguals can vary in terms of many dimensions like amount of language use, proficiency levels in their languages, and age of acquisition. This book gets to the heart of how bilinguals differ from one another, but also how they are similar to one another. Its focus is on research-based evidence, so that the reader can understand bilingualism from an up-to-date scientifically informed perspective. Covering topics such as how bilingual children acquire more than one language, how bilingual adults manage two or more languages in their minds, whether earlier is really always better, and even whether bilingualism affords cognitive advantages, it's a must-read book for all students of Bilingualism from Psychology, Language or Linguistics backgrounds.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Advanced and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

de Leeuw, Esther

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. Acknowledgement. Chapter 1: Five basic points about bilingualism. Chapter 2: Multicompetent bilinguals. Chapter 3: Beware of different forms of the Monolingual Bias. Chapter 4: What is a critical period? Chapter 5: Child Bilingualism: Exposure, but not only exposure, modifies proficiency. Chapter 6: Adult bilingualism: Language use, and many other predictor variables, modify proficiency. Chapter 7: Bilingual attrition: A waterfall in a river. Chapter 8: The Bilingual Brain: Bilinguals have a task that monolinguals do not have because bilinguals manage two or more languages in their brain. Chapter 9: Code-switching: "Back and forths" between languages is a sign of proficiency, not inadequacy. Chapter 10: Each bilingual experience is unique.

Über Autor(innen)

Esther de Leeuw grew up on the West Coast of Canada, partly on Vancouver Island, partly on Haida Gwaii and partly in Terrace, BC. She studied phonetics, psychology and German in Trier, Germany and completed her PhD in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. She started working at the BBC Pronunciation Unit directly after finishing her PhD and then continued her academic career at Queen Margaret University, London, where she founded and directed the QMUL Phonetics Laboratory from 2012 to 2023. She also co-founded Multilingual Capital at QMUL, an organisation that promoted the dissemination of academic research into multilingualism. In 2023, she moved with her husband and two daughters to Lausanne, Switzerland, to take up a professorship in Language Acquisition and Multilingualism, where she founded the organisation Multilingual Switzerland.