Chapter 9 Finding the Points of Contact: Language Acquisition in Children Raised in Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Environments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Part 1: Processing Two Languages
5. Chapter 1. Bilingual Speech Processing in Infants and Adults 1
6. Chapter 2. When Infants Hear Two Languages: Interpreting Research on Early Speech Perception by Bilingual Children 19
7. Chapter 3. The Onset of Word Form Recognition in One Language and in Two 30
8. Part 2: Learning Two Languages
9. Chapter 4. Bilingual First Language Acquisition in Perspective 45
10. Chapter 5. Social Factors in Bilingual Development: The Miami Experience 68
11. Part 3: Literacy in Two Languages
12. Chapter 6. Developing Literacy in English-language Learners: An Examination of the Impact of English-only Versus Bilingual Instruction 91
13. Chapter 7. Bilingualism at School: Effect on the Acquisition of Literacy 107
14. Part 4: Perspectives on Childhood Bilingualism from Related Fields
15. Chapter 8. Adult Bilingualism and Bilingual Development 125
16. Chapter 9 Finding the Points of Contact: Language Acquisition in Children Raised in Monolingual, Bilingual and Multilingual Environments 135
17. Part 5: Closing Comments
18. Chapter 10. Multiple Perspectives on Research on Childhood Bilingualism 149
19. Chapter 11. An Agenda for Research on Childhood Bilingualism 157
20. The Contributors 166