Bilingual competence and bilingual proficiency in child development /
In this volume, Norbert Francis examines the development of bilingual proficiency and the different kinds of competence that come together in making up its component parts.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
The MIT Press,
2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: The Problem of Language Acquisition When There Are Two
- 1.1. Bilingual Proficiency and Bilingual Competence
- 1.2. Knowledge That Outstrips Experience
- 1.3. Modularity
- 1.4. Study of Indigenous-Language Bilingualism in Mexico
- 1.5. Looking Ahead: Overview of the Chapters
- 2. Bilingualism in School
- 2.1. When Second Language Learning Is Not Optional
- 2.2. Bilingualism, Diglossia, and Literacy
- 2.3. Componential Approach to Language Ability Solves a Practical Problem in Second Language Learning
- 2.4. New Democracy in South Africa: The Challenge of a Multilingual Language Policy
- 2.5. Possible Counterexample from North Africa
- 2.6. Program Design Based on a Concept from Sociolinguistics
- 3. Debate on the Nature of Bilingual Proficiency: Distinguishing between Different Kinds of Language Ability
- 3.1. First Language and Second Language in Literacy Learning
- 3.2. Concepts of Bilingual Proficiency: Background to the Debate
- 3.3. Proposed Modification of Cummins's Model
- 3.4. Literacy Learning at the San Isidro Bilingual School: A Follow-Up Study
- 3.5. Comparing Results from Both Languages
- 3.6. Using the New Model to Describe Different Kinds of Interdependence
- 3.7. Components and Connections
- 4. Componential Approaches to the Study of Language Proficiency
- 4.1. Vygotsky and Luria: The Concept of "Inner Speech"
- 4.2. Metacognition: Language at the Service of Higher-Order Thinking
- 4.3. Compartmentalization of the Bilingual Mind
- 4.4. Bilingualism as a Showcase for the Internal Diversity of Language Proficiency
- 4.5. Advancing the Research Program on Bilingualism: The Need for Clarity and Reflection
- 5. Research on the Components of Bilingual Proficiency
- 5.1. Maximum Imbalance in Bilingualism
- 5.2. Separation of the Linguistic Subsystems
- 5.3. How Bilingual Speech Constitutes Evidence of Language Separation
- 5.4. Contradictions of an Integrativist Approach
- 5.5. Bilingual Version of the Tripartite Parallel Architecture
- 5.6. More Opportunities for Research on Uneven Development
- 6. Critical Period, Access to Universal Grammar in First and Second Language, and Language Attrition
- 6.1. Overview of the Chapter
- 6.2. Concept of Language Attrition
- 6.3. What the Research Says about First Language Attrition
- 6.4. Critical Period Hypothesis
- 6.5. Is Second Language Competence Universal Grammar-Constrained?
- 6.6. Acquisition and Learning in the Second Language
- 6.7. Wider Discussion: Applying Concepts to New Research
- 7. Analysis of Academic Language Proficiency
- 7.1. Secondary Discourse Ability + Metalinguistic Awareness
- 7.2. Development of Narrativization and Levels of Narrative Ability
- 7.3. Language Development
- Grammar
- 7.4. Access to Shared Academic Proficiencies in Biliteracy
- 7.5. Linking Secondary Discourse Ability and Metalinguistic Awareness at the Discourse, Sentence, and Word Levels
- 8. Metalinguistic Awareness, Bilingualism, and Writing
- 8.1. Metalinguistic Development and Bilingualism
- 8.2. Metalinguistic Awareness in Literacy and Second Language Learning
- 8.3. Study of Children's Perceptions of Focus on Form
- 8.4. Children's Development of a Reflective Posture toward Writing: Results from Spanish
- 8.5. Metalinguistic Awareness as a Component of Literacy Ability
- Writing in Particular
- 8.6. Possible Implications for Teaching Writing Skills
- 8.7. Children's Development of a Reflective Posture toward Writing: Results from Nahuatl
- 8.8. Revision/Correction Assessment in Nahuatl
- 8.9. Comparison of Performance between the Languages
- 8.10. Internal Resources and External Factors
- 8.11. Applying Different Kinds of Knowledge in Literacy Development
- 9. Metalinguistic Awareness, Bilingualism, and Reading
- 9.1. Modular Approaches to the Study of Reading
- 9.2. Study of Focus on Form in Reading
- 9.3. Development of a Reflective Posture toward Reading Comprehension
- 9.4. One Way in Which Children Learn to Use Context Strategically
- 9.5. Future Research on Literacy Learning, Metalinguistic Awareness, and Bilingualism
- 9.6. Does the Use of Context Contradict Modularity in Reading?
- 10. Conclusion: Results and Prospects
- 10.1. Parts to Whole: What's Natural and What's Unnatural in Language Learning?
- 10.2. Versions of Modularity and Pending Questions in Bilingual Research
- 10.3. Language Diversity, Cognition, and Culture.