Raising BilingualBiliterate Children in Monolingual Cultures by Stephen J. Caldas
Brand: Channel View Publications Ltd
Product Description
This book is a case study carefully detailing the FrenchEnglish bilingual and biliterate development of three children in one family beginning with their births and ending in late adolescence. The author and researcher is the childrens FrenchEnglish bilingual American father who was aided by his bilingual French Canadian wife also the childrens mother. We reared our three children in two different cultures essentially monolingual Englishspeaking Louisiana and totally monolingual Frenchspeaking Quebec. The family spent academic years in Louisiana and the summer months in Quebec. Our strategy was to speak only French to our son and our identical twin daughters. We artificially orchestrated and manipulated both the strategies and to the extent possible even the childrens environments to ensure the success of our project. Additionally I carefully documented our progress using a variety of research tools including audio and videotape recordings teacher and child surveys interviews with teachers fieldnotes psychological and diagnostic testing and standardized assessment instruments.
Condition : New
Author : Stephen J. Caldas
Weight : 556
Publisher : Channel View Publications Ltd
Language : English
EAN : 9781853598760
ISBN10 : 1853598763
Format : Hardback
Date of Publication : 20060406
Place of Publication : United Kingdom
Pagination : 248
Dimensions : 210 X 148 X 19