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Book SynopsisThis book sets a high standard for rigor and scientific approach to the study of bilingualism and provides new insights regarding the critical issues of theory and practice, including the interdependence of linguistic knowledge in bilinguals, the role of socioeconomic status, the effect of different language usage patterns in the home, and the role of schooling by single-language immersion as opposed to systematic training in both home and target languages. The rich landscape of outcomes reported in the volume will provide a frame for interpretation and understanding of effects of bilingualism for years to come.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Part 1: Background
1 D. Kimbrough Oller and Barbara Zurer Pearson: Assessing the Effects of Bilingualism: A Background
2 D. Kimbrough Oller and Rebecca E. Eilers: An Integrated Approach to Evaluating Effects of Bilingualism in Miami School Children: The Study Design
Part 2: Overall Results on Language Use and Standardized Test Performance
3 Rebecca E. Eilers, D. Kimbrough Oller and Alan B. Cobo-Lewis: Bilingualism and Cultural Assimilation in Miami Hispanic Children
4 Alan B. Cobo-Lewis, Barbara Zurer Pearson, Rebecca E. Eilers and Vivian C. Umbel: Effects of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education on Oral and Written English Skills: A Multifactor Study of Standardized Test Outcomes
5 Alan B. Cobo-Lewis, Barbara Zurer Pearson, Rebecca E. Eilers and Vivian C. Umbel: Effects of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education on Oral and Written Spanish Skills: A Multifactor Study of Standardized Test Outcomes
6 Alan B. Cobo-Lewis, Rebecca E. Eilers, Barbara Zurer Pearson and Vivian C. Umbel: Interdependence of Spanish and English Knowledge in Language and Literacy Among Bilingual Children
Part 3: Probe Studies on Complex Language Capabilities
7 Barbara Zurer Pearson: Narrative Competence among Monolingual and Bilingual School Children in Miami
8 Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole: Command of the Mass/Count Distinction in Bilingual and Monolingual Children: An English Morphosyntactic Distinction
9 Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole: Grammatical Gender in Bilingual and Monolingual Children: A Spanish Morphosyntactic Distinction
10 Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole: Monolingual and Bilingual Acquisition: Learning Different Treatments of that-trace Phenomena in English and Spanish
11 D. Kimbrough Oller and Alan B. Cobo-Lewis: The Ability of Bilingual and Monolingual Children to Perform Phonological Translation
Part 4: A Retrospective View of the Research
12 D. Kimbrough Oller and Rebecca E. Eilers: Balancing Interpretations Regarding Effects of Bilingualism: Empirical Outcomes and Theoretical Possibilities
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