Growing up with languages : reflections on multilingual childhoods /: reflections on multilingual childhoods. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Claire Thomas.
• Other Names: Thomas, Claire, 1963-
• Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1: Different Types of Family and Issues that Only Affect Some Kinds of Family 1 Issues for Families Speaking More than One Language at Home 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 a Result of Advice Given to Parents 8 Changes as a Result of Interviewees’ Choices or Decisions Part 2: Issues at Home that will Affect Most, if Not All, Families at Some Time 9 Consistency Versus 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 Holidays Part 3: 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 Homework Part 4: Language Policies and Politics 18 Language Status, Links to Politics and Racism Part 5: 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 the Reasons Given 26 Access to Culture as Adults 27 Accents 28 Learning Additional Languages Part 6: Overall Analysis and Recommendations 29 Factors Linked to Success or Failure 30 Recommendations to Parents Raising Multilingual Children 31 Suggested Reading About Waltham Forest Bilingual Group and How This Project Got Started
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Multilingual Matters
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (272 pages)
• Subjects: 306.446083; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General; Multilingualism in children; Parenting; Children -- Language; Families -- Language; HEALTH & FITNESS / General; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / General; FAMILY & HEALTH; Advice on parenting
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847697172; 1847697178
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.