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Book SynopsisMultilingualism has increased in recent years due to globalisation, transnational mobility and the spread of Information and Communications Technology (ICT). This volume explores some of the trends in the study of multilingual education by putting together research studies that analyse the processes of both 'becoming multilingual' and 'being multilingual' in educational contexts.Table of ContentsList of contributors; Series editors' preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Towards a holistic approach in the study of multilingual education Jasone Cenoz and Durk Gorter; 2. L1 as a pedagogical resource in building students' L2 academic literacy: pedagogical innovation in the science classroom in a Hong Kong school Gladys N. Y. Luk and Angel M. Y. Lin; 3. Linking content, linking students: a cross-linguistic pedagogical intervention Susan Ballinger; 4. The role of the native language in the literacy development of Latino students in the United States Igone Arteagoitia and Liz Howard; 5. A nexus analysis of code choice during study abroad, and implications for language pedagogy Glenn S. Levine; 6. Multilingual practices in foreign language study Claire Kramsch and Michael Huffmaster; 7. Language choices and ideologies in the bilingual classroom Janet M. Fuller; 8. Communicative repertoires in the community language classroom: resources for negotiating authenticity Angela Creese, Adrian Blackledge and Jaspreet Kaur Takhi; 9. Complementary classrooms for multilingual minority ethnic children as a translanguaging space Li Wei; 10. Constructing in-between spaces to 'do' bilingualism: a tale of two high schools in one city Ofelia García, Nelson Flores and Heather Homonoff Woodley; 11. Becoming multilingual and being multilingual: some thoughts David Block; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive linguistic analysis of contemporary US television series. Adopting an interdisciplinary and multimethodological approach, Monika Bednarek brings together linguistic analysis of the Sydney Corpus of Television Dialogue with analysis of scriptwriting manuals, interviews with Hollywood scriptwriters, and a survey undertaken with university students about their consumption of TV series. In so doing, she presents five new and original empirical studies. The focus on language use in a professional context (the television industry), on scriptwriting pedagogy, and on learning and teaching provides an applied linguistic lens on TV series. This is complemented by perspectives taken from media linguistics, corpus linguistics and sociocultural linguistics/sociolinguistics. Throughout the book, multiple dialogue extracts are presented from a wide variety of well-known fictional television series, including The Big Bang Theory, Grey''s Anatomy and Bones. Researchers Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. Television dialogue; 2. Linguistic approaches to telecinematic discourse; Part II. A Functional Approach to Television Series (FATS): 3. Functions relating to the communication of the narrative; 4. Other functions of TV dialogue; Part III. Data and Approaches: 5. Corpora and corpus linguistic methods; 6. Other approaches; Part IV. Analyses of SydTV: 7. Salient features of TV dialogue: a corpus linguistic approach; 8. Key words, variation, and further insights into TV dialogue; 9. Non-codified language in SydTV; Part V. TV Dialogue in Pedagogy: 10. 'Take that pencil and just GO!': TV series and scriptwriting pedagogy; 11. Consuming television dialogue: a case study of advanced learners in Germany; Part VI. Conclusion: 12. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisDoes a bilingual person have two separate lexicons and two separate grammatical systems? Or should the bilingual linguistic competence be regarded as an integrated system? This book explores this issue, which is central to current debate in the study of bilingualism, and argues for an integrated hypothesis: the linguistic competence of an individual is a single cognitive faculty, and the bilingual mind should not be regarded as fundamentally different from the monolingual one. This conclusion is backed up with a variety of empirical data, in particular code-switching, drawn from a variety of bilingual pairs. The book introduces key notions in minimalism and distributed morphology, making them accessible to readers with different scholarly foci. This book is of interest to those working in linguistics and psycholinguistics, especially bilingualism, code-switching, and the lexicon.Table of Contents1. Introduction. Motivating a unified linguistic system; 2. Remarks on separationist architectures; 3. Phases, distributed morphology and some contributions from code-switching; 4. 1Lex in MDM; 5. Building the case for 1Lex: Gender; 6. 1PF in MDM; 7. Lexical questions: what do you know when you know a word?; 8. Psycho-syntactic questions: acquisition, priming and co-activation, and a note on the processing cost; 9. Convergent and divergent paths; 10. General conclusions; 11. Appendix. Restrictions on code-switching; 12. Appendix. The Creole continuum; List of figures; Acknowledgements; References; Endnotes.

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Book SynopsisWith contributions from world-renowned experts, this is a pioneering survey of heritage languages, focusing on issues ranging from individual language knowledge to broader societal, educational and policy concerns in a global context. It will be welcomed by researchers and language professionals in a wide range of fields.Table of ContentsIntroduction – heritage languages, heritage speakers, heritage linguistics Silvina Montrul and Maria Polinsky; Part I. Heritage Languages Around the World: 1. Slavic heritage languages around the globe Bernhard Brehmmer; 2. Heritage languages in Europe Tanja Kupisch; 3. Heritage languages in Southeastern Europe Natalia Pavlou and Kleanthes K. Grohmann; 4. Heritage languages in China Linda Tsung and Lubei Zhang; 5. Heritage languages in Japan and Korea Hyun-Sook Kang and James Hye Suk Yoon; 6. Heritage languages in Israel Natalia Meir, Susan Joffe, Ronald Shabtaev, Joel Walters and Sharon Armon-Lotem; 7. Heritage languages in New Zealand and Australia Corinne Seals; 8. Heritage languages in Canada Naomi Nagy; 9. Asian heritage languages in the United States – Chinese and Hindi language communities Shereen Bhalla, Na Liu and Terence G. Wiley; 10. The vitality of Spanish as a heritage language in the United States Maria M. Carreira; 11. Germanic heritage varieties in the Americas – social and linguistic perspectives Janne Bondi Johannessen and Joseph Salmons; 12. Arabic in North America Abdulkafi Albirini; 13. Heritage languages in South America John M. Lipski; 14. Language attrition and heritage language reversal in returnees Cristina Flores and Neal Snape; Part II. Research Approaches to Heritage Languages: 15. Heritage language research and theoretical linguistics Elabbas Benmamoun; 16. The emergence of heritage language – a case study from Korean William O'Grady and Chae-Eun Kim; 17. Sociolinguistic approaches to heritage languages Andrew Lynch and Netta Avineri; 18. The psycholinguistics of heritage languages Jill Jegerski and Irina Sekerina; 19. Contact linguistics and heritage languages Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez and Lorena Sainzmaza-Lecanda; 20. A narrative-ethnographic approach to research on heritage language development Agnes Weiyun He; 21. Corpus-based methodologies in the study of heritage languages Olesya Kisselev; 22. Current trends and emerging methodologies in charting heritage language grammars Fatih Bayram, Grazia Di Pisa, Jason Rothman and Roumyana Slabakova; Part III. Grammatical Aspects of Heritage Languages: 23. Phonetics and phonology Charles B. Chang; 24. Morphology Michael Putnam, Lara Schwarz and Andrew Hoffman; 25. Syntax Terje Lohndal; 26. Semantics of heritage languages Tania Ionin; 27. Discourse and information structure in heritage languages Oksana Laleko; 28. Pragmatics in heritage languages Irina Dubinina; Part IV. Heritage Language Education: 29. Elementary school heritage language educational options and outcomes Kim Potowski; 30. Community-organized heritage language programs Jin Sook Lee and Huay Chen; 31. Curricular and programmatic language development opportunities for university-level heritage language learners Sara Beaudrie; 32. Instructed heritage language acquisition Melissa A. Bowles and Julio Torres; 33. Issues and practices in community-based experiential learning for heritage speakers in the United States Paola Guerrero-Rodriguez, Adriana Ojeda and Diego Pascual y Cabo; 34. Developing Spanish heritage language biliteracy María Cecilia Colombi; 35. Heritage language assessment Kimi Kondo-Brown; 36. Embracing opportunity in heritage language revitalization Maria Schwedhelm, Kate Stemper and Kendall King; 37. Heritage language planning and policy Terrence G. Wiley.

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Book SynopsisAre you raising your child bilingually, or planning to do so in the future, but are unsure how to proceed? Using a question-and-answer format, this practical and reassuring guide will enable readers to make informed decisions about how to raise their child with two or more languages. To grow up bilingually is a necessity or an opportunity for more children today than ever before. However, parents are frequently uncertain about what to do, or even fear that they may be putting their child''s development at risk. Disentangling fact from myth, it shows that a child can acquire more than one ''first'' language simultaneously and that one language need not have negative effects on the other. Each chapter is devoted to a question typically asked by parents in counselling sessions, followed by a concise answer, summaries of the evidence and practical tips.Trade Review'Prospective parents considering raising their children with two or more languages or parents who are already doing so will find this book by an eminent child bilingualism specialist invaluable. A combination of deep insights based on solid scientific research and well considered common sense, together with attention to families' well-being, make sure that this guide will greatly help families on their bilingual path.' Annick De Houwer, Universität Erfurt, Germany'Jürgen M. Meisel is an internationally respected authority on child bilingualism. Bilingual Children is a beautifully written, eminently readable guide for parents and caregivers who want to understand the advantages and (mostly mythical) drawbacks of raising children with a command of two or more languages. The book is a practical, research-informed guide on how to do it successfully, whether within a family or a societal bi- or multilingual setting, when the child's first exposure to the languages is simultaneous or sequential, and for children of different starting ages. Highly recommended.' Michael H. Long, University of Maryland'This study will be valuable to all who are interested in or curious about bilingualism.' L. Lopez, Choice'While seeking to foster bilingualism during childhood is a laudable and quite reasonable goal, there is no one-size-fits-all approach for each family. This book is an invaluable resource for those wishing to understand scientific evidence and practical choices that will help them to support bilingual children. It is therefore highly recommended reading for parents and caregivers of young bi- or multicultural individuals.' Daniel O. Jackson, Japan Journal of Multilingualism and MulticulturalismTable of Contents1. Bilingualism in early childhood – disentangling myths and facts; 2. How infants become native speakers; 3. Two languages in one mind – differentiating linguistic systems; 4. Keeping languages apart: mixing, interference and interaction of languages; 5. Language dominance, strong and weak languages; 6. Trilingual and more – the role of input; 7. The age question; 8. Benefits and advantages of child bilingualism; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisA vital resource on speech and language processing in bilingual adults and children The Listening Bilingual brings together in one volume the various components of spoken language processing in bilingual adults, infants and children. The book includes a review of speech perception and word recognition; syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of speech processing; the perception and comprehension of bilingual mixed speech (code-switches, borrowings and interferences); and the assessment of bilingual speech perception and comprehension in adults and children in the clinical context. The two main authors as well as selected guest authors, Mark Antoniou, Theres Grüter, Robert J. Hartsuiker, Elizabeth D. Peña and Lisa M. Bedore, and Lu-Feng Shi, introduce the various approaches used in the study of spoken language perception and comprehension in bilingual individuals. The authors focus on experimentation that involves both well-established tasTable of ContentsAuthor Biographies viii Introdution 1 1 Bilingual Adults and Children: A Short Introduction 4François Grosjean and Krista Byers‐Heinlein Introduction 4 General Aspects of Bilingualism 5 Bilingual Children 13 Summary 21 References 21 2 Speech Perception and Comprehension 25François Grosjean and Krista Byers‐Heinlein Introduction 25 From the Speech Wave to the Mental Representation 26 Processing in Bilingual Adults 29 Processing in Bilingual Children 33 Summary 37 References 37 Part I Speech Processing in Adults 41 3 Speech Perception 43Mark Antoniou Introduction 43 Perception of Speech Segments by Bilinguals 43 Factors Affecting Bilinguals’ Speech Perception 48 Theories of Cross‐Language Speech Perception 54 The Role of Suprasegmentals in Speech Perception 58 Future Challenges and Directions 60 Summary 61 References 61 4 Spoken Word Recognition 65François Grosjean Introduction 65 How Does Word Recognition Take Place and How Do Bilinguals Fare? 66 Language Proficiency, Use and History 67 Lower Level Information 71 Processing Mechanisms and Strategies 73 The Activation of Candidates 77 Summary 82 References 83 5 Processing at Higher Levels 86Robert J. Hartsuiker Introduction 86 Auditory Sentence Comprehension: Stages and Principles 86 Syntactic Analysis 90 Processing the Meaning of Words 97 Syntactic Integration and Revision 102 Discussion and Conclusion 103 Summary 104 References 105 6 Processing Bilingual Speech 109François Grosjean Introduction 109 Does the Perception of Spoken Code‐Switches Take Extra Time? 110 The Recognition of Guest Words 115 The Processing of Interferences 123 Summary 126 References 126 7 Assessing Perception and Comprehension in Bilingual Adults 129Lu‐Feng Shi Introduction 129 Issues in Bilingual Assessment 129 Word Recognition 131 Recognition of Connected Speech 137 Factors That Affect Assessment of Speech Perception in Bilinguals 140 Summary 144 References 145 Part II Speech Processing in Children 151 8 Speech Perception 153Krista Byers‐Heinlein Introduction 153 Simultaneous Bilingual Infants 154 Child L2 Learners 166 Summary 171 References 172 9 Spoken Word Recognition 176Krista Byers‐Heinlein Introduction 176 Finding Words in the Speech Stream 176 Learning New Words 179 Recognizing Familiar Words 184 The Role of Speech Perception in Learning and Recognizing Words 187 Bilingual Children’s Vocabulary 190 Summary 194 References 194 10 Processing at Higher Levels 199Theres Grüter Introduction 199 Asymmetries Between Comprehension and Production 201 Real‐Time Processing 205 Cross‐Linguistic Influence 207 Input and Exposure 214 Summary 216 References 217 11 Assessing Perception and Comprehension in Bilingual Children, Without and With Speech and Language Impairment 220Elizabeth D. Peña and Lisa M. Bedore Introduction 220 Defining Language Impairment 220 Phonological Perception and Word Learning 221 Challenges in Assessment of Bilingual Children 223 Assessment of Single Word Knowledge 227 Assessment of Semantic Knowledge 233 Implications for Practice 236 Summary 236 References 237 Index 244

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Book SynopsisEmbracing Multilingualism Across Educational Contexts brings together researchers, practitioners, and community stakeholders from around the world to present international case studies of multilingualism in education. This book seeks to empower the speakers and teachers of heritage, Indigenous, and minority languages around the world, as translanguaging also seeks to do. It challenges research agendas and pushes our understanding of linguistic terminology, especially in areas of social justice. At times examining classroom teaching and at times examining language policy, Embracing Multilingualism Across Educational Contexts showcases the value of and gains made when embracing multilingualism in education.

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