Children's Language and Multilingualism

Indigenous Language Use at Home and School
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9517-4
Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 512 g

An accessible survey of the linguistic issues facing children growing up in indigenous communities.

All over the world there are children who learn one (or more) language at home and then have to learn another language when they attend school. In some cases this is because children come from immigrant backgrounds; in other cases children come from indigenous communities in countries which have been colonised. This book illustrates the linguistic diversity that can be found in such communities. It examines a wide range of factors which relate to the divergence between home and school language for children growing up in indigenous multilingual communities.

Children's Language and Multilingualism explains concisely and clearly why educators, health specialists, government bodies and politicians need to understand the importance of these differences for children’s social and linguistic development, particularly in relation to education and social policy. Never far from the surface are the well-documented benefits of bi- and multilingualism in education nationally and internationally. This accessible survey of the linguistic issues facing children growing up in indigenous communities will be of interest to advanced students and researchers of multilingualism and language acquisition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simpson, Jane

Wigglesworth, Gillian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Jane Simpson (University of Sydney, Australia) & Gillian Wigglesworth (University of Melbourne, Australia)
1. The language learning environment of preschool children in Indigenous communities, Jane Simpson (University of Sydney, Australia) and Gillian Wigglesworth (University of Melbourne, Australia)
2. Questions about questions, Katrin Moses (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Colin Yallop (University of Melbourne, Australia)

3. Storytelling styles: A study of adult-child interactions in narrations of a picture book in Tennant Creek, Samantha Disbray (University of Melbourne, Australia)
4. 'I don't talk story like that': On the social meaning of children's sand stories at Ernabella, Ute Eickelkamp (Charles Darwin University, Australia)
5. The collaborative construction of knowledge in a traditional context, Elanor Reeders (University of Melbourne, Australia)

6. The silence of the frogs: Dysfunctional discourse in the 'English-only' Aboriginal classroom, Karin Moses (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Gillian Wigglesworth (University of Melbourne, Australia)
7. Children, language and literacy in the Ngaanyatjarra Lands, Inge Kral (Australian National University) and Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis
8. Issues in the assessment of children's oral skills, Caroline Jones and Joy Campbell Nangart
9. Language Difference or Language Disorder, Judy Gould
10. Indigenous children and conductive hearing loss (Ann Galloway, Carleton University, Canada)
11. Language mixing and language shifts in Indigenous Australia, Patrick McConvell (AIATSIS, Australia)
12. Children's Production of their heritage language and a new mixed language, Carmel O'Shannessy (University of Melbourne, Australia)
13. Unravelling Languages: Multilingualism and language contact in Kalkaringi, Felicity Meakins University of Melbourne, Australia)
Authors index
Languages index
Places index
General index

Über Autor(innen)

Jane Simpson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney, Australia.

Gillian Wigglesworth is Professor and Head of the School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Australia.