基本説明
Combines solid research, humor, and real-life examples into 21 informative and entertaining essays about people who experience the world with multiple languages.
Full Description
The bulk of the world's population is multilingual, and one in seven Americans speak a language other than English at home. Multilinguals crave answers to question both basic and profound, questions relating to linguistic identity, schools, multiliteracy, how languages are actually learned, and why there are so many variations on individual success. Tokuhama-Espinosa combines solid research, humor, and real-life examples into 21 informative and entertaining essays about people who experience the world with multiple languages.
This book tackles common misconceptions about polyglots (too many languages can cause brain overload, some languages are easier to learn than others, an adult cannot learn a foreign language as fast as a child, etc.)
Other topics include:
• Curriculum choice
• Teaching languages using the multiple intelligences
• How different education systems can influence multilingual skills
• Language's relationship to mental tasks such as music and math
• Languages from the womb and bilingualism from birth
• The growth of the trilingual family
• The societal situation of third culture kids (those growing outside of their parents' native country)
• A special case for foreign language development
• The emerging cross-area study of multilingualism and cosmopolitanism
• Questions of linguistic identity
• Challenges to normal foreign language learning, such as dyslexia, Downs Syndrome, and deafness
Contents
Tables and Charts Contributing Authors Preface Introduction by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa Myths About Multilingualism Myths About Multilingualism by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa Schooling and Foreign Languages Teaching Languages Using the Multiple Intelligences and Senses by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa The Role of the Sense of Smell in Language Learning by Sara Ackerman Aoyama Mulitliteracy Skills by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa Two-Way Immersion Programs in the United States by Jennifer Frengel The Relationship Between Musical Ability and Foreign Languages by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa Language, Math, and Thought: Vygotsky's Concept of Inner Speech by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa Primary Multilingual Mathematics by Marie Petraitis Degrees of Multilingualism Languages in the Womb by Andrea Bader-Rusch First Choice Option: From Birth by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa Bilingualism from Birth by Manuela Gonzalez-Bueno Trilingualism: A Study of Children Growing Up With Three Languages by Suzanne Hauwaert-Barron What, You Only Speak One Language!? A Trilingual Family's Story by Nicola Kupelikilinc Society and Languages Third Culture Kids: A Special Case for Foreign Language Learning by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa The Yellow Streetcar: Thoughts and Stories About a Polyphonic Identity by Christina Allemann-Ghionda Linguistic Hegemony: Is There a Superior Language by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa Foreign Adoption and Bilingual Children in Scarce Language Environments: Let the Internet Help! by Maria Johnson Multilingualism and Cosmopolitanism by Konrad Gunesch Individual Differences A Voice Within a Voice: Federman Translating/Translating Federman, A Question of Linguistic Identity by Raymond Federman Challenges to Normal Foreign Language Learning: Dyslexia, Downs Syndrome, Deafness by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa Conclusion by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa Bibliography Index
