Acknowledgements

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Part 1: Background
5. Chapter 1: Assessing the Effects of Bilingualism: A Background 3
6. Chapter: 2 An Integrated Approach to Evaluating Effects of Bilingualism in Miami School Children: The Study Design 22
7. Part 2: Overall Results on Language Use and Standardized Test Performance
8. Chapter 3: Bilingualism and Cultural Assimilation in Miami Hispanic Children 43
9. Chapter: 4 Effects of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education on Oral and Written English Skills: A Multifactor Study of Standardized Test Outcomes 64
10. Chapter 5: Effects of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education on Oral and Written Spanish Skills: A Multifactor Study of Standardized Test Outcomes 98
11. Chapter 6: Interdependence of Spanish and English Knowledge in Language and Literacy Among Bilingual Children 118
12. Part 3: Probe Studies on Complex Language Capabilities
13. Chapter 7: Narrative Competence among Monolingual and Bilingual School Children in Miami 135
14. Chapter 8: Command of the Mass/Count Distinction in Bilingual and Monolingual Children: An English Morphosyntactic Distinction 175
15. Chapter 9: Grammatical Gender in Bilingual and Monolingual Children: A Spanish Morphosyntactic Distinction 207
16. Chapter 10: Monolingual and Bilingual Acquisition: Learning Different Treatments of that-trace Phenomena in English and Spanish 220
17. Chapter 11: The Ability of Bilingual and Monolingual Children to Perform Phonological Translation 255
18. Part 4: A Retrospective View of the Research
19. Chapter 12: Balancing Interpretations Regarding Effects of Bilingualism: Empirical Outcomes and Theoretical Possibilities 281
20. References 293
21. Index 308