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Growing Up with Languages de Claire Thomas

Growing Up with Languages: Parents' and Teachers' Guides, cartea 15

Autor Claire Thomas
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 mai 2012

A unique new insight into multilingual families, this book views multilingual childhoods from the point of the child and is based on over 50 interviews with adults who grew up in multilingual settings. The book charts their recollections of their childhoods and includes many different types of families, discusses many of the common issues that arise in multilingual families, and draws examples from all over the world. The book fills a significant gap in the literature and resources available to multilingual parents. It was researched and written by a self-help group of multilingual parents and thus the book remains very practical and gives clear and realistic advice to multilingual parents facing choices or dilemmas. However, because of its unique viewpoint, this book also includes much new material that will be of interest to researchers and students of bilingualism.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781847697141
ISBN-10: 1847697143
Pagini: 253
Dimensiuni: 168 x 221 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Multilingual Matters Limited
Seria Parents' and Teachers' Guides

Notă biografică

Claire Thomas is herself the mother of two children who are being raised bilingually. She was a founding member of Waltham Forest Bilingual Group and has been Secretary of the group for 8 years. She has helped design and run several different forms of workshops for parents and has discussed bilingual family decisions and dilemmas with literally hundreds of parents. Waltham Forest Bilingual Group is a small, entirely voluntary, group of parents in multilingual families. It provides support to parents in such families in North East London via a regular monthly drop in event, quarterly workshops and speaker events. For more information or to get in touch, please visit www.wfbilingual.org.uk.

Cuprins

IntroductionSection A. Different types of family and issues that only affect some kinds of family 1. Issues for families speaking more than one language at home/Mixed Language Relationships; 2. Issues for families using one language at home, another in the community and at school; 3. Interviewees who are bilingual solely through attending school in another language; 4. Interviewees who learnt languages solely from the community; 5. Changes as a result of divorce or separation; 6. Changes as a result of the death of one parent 7. Changes as the result of advice given to parents; 8. Changes as the result of interviewees' choices or decisionsSection B. Isues at home that will affect most, if not all, families at some time 9. Consistency v. Flexibility in languages used at home; 10.Rewards, encouragement, sanctions and disapproval linked to language use; 11. Resistance - children who prefer not to speak a language; 12. Fitting in/Standing out; 13. Input from others, resources and holidaysSection C. Education 14. Starting school and changing schools; 15. Home language support/teaching in mainstream schools; 16. Additional support outside (or as an alternative to) mainstream schools 17.Help with homeworkSection D. Language policies and politics 18. Language status, links to politics and racismSection E. Interviewees as adults 19. Advantages and Disadvantages of having been raised bilingually; 20. One thing you would change about your bilingual childhood and advice to a family just starting out.; 21. Low input and language loss and retention; 22. Identities; 23. Studying and working abroad as young adults, choosing where to live more permanently and using bilingualism at work 24. Relationships; 25.Raising children monolingually or bilingually and reasons given; 26. Access to culture as adults; 27. Accents; 28.Learning additional languagesSection F.Overall Analysis and Recommendations 29. Factors linked to success or failure; 30. Recommendations to parents raising multilingual children

Recenzii

This book looks at the lives and the trajectories of multilinguals and lets them talk about their experiences. The author demonstrates how fluid and dynamic bilingualism is within a family, but it also shows what bilingual families have in common and what can be done to maintain bilingualism. A great book!Jean-Marc Dewaele, Birkbeck, University of London, UKThis book takes a unique approach in addressing the complexity of multilingual families through the voices of multilinguals. Based on accounts by adults of their multilingual childhood experiences and memories, the author clearly demonstrates the different circumstances of multilingual families and their diverse language practices. The book vividly depicts what it means to be multilingual and spells out the benefits and the challenges associated with it. It is definitely a must for all parents who are raising multilingual children.Xiao-lei Wang, Pace University, USAClaire Thomas' Growing Up with Languages is a very welcome addition to the growing number of practical books on bilingualism. Straightforward and accessible, it provides information about and insights into bilingual upbringing that parents will find helpful as they chart their way through unknown waters, by giving them a glimpse of possible futures. The approach is original, basing the text on the stories of how adult bilinguals grew up with two or more languages, and providing advice and suggestions that are always grounded in real experience that is easy to understand and relate to. The author's voice, while authoritative, is never prescriptive and her guidance suggests rather than directs in a way that empowers parents to reach their own particular solution to the challenge of bringing up children bilingually.Eminently readable, this book will undoubtedly become a classic and an important point of reference for all those interested in how people grow up speaking more than one language.Ricky Lowes, Chair, Plymouth Multilingual Families