The Multilingual Mind: Issues Discussed By, For, and about People Living with Many 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 |
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The Relationship Between Musical Ability and Foreign Languages : Communication via Sounds and via Words Tracey Tokuhama - Espinosa 65 7. Language , Math , and Thought : Vygotsky's Concept of Inner Speech Tracey Tokuhama - Espinosa 81 91 ...
This has led researchers to propose other definitions of bilingualism , such as : the ability to produce meaningful utterances in two ( or more ) languages , the command of at least one language skill ( reading , writing , speaking ...
Is there a correlation between musical ability and foreign language ability ? What language do bilinguals do math in ? Is there such a thing as a " superior " language ? What is the best way to cultivate multiliteracy skills ?
The ability to speak many languages is a type of intelligence . 7. All people use the same area of their brain to speak languages . 8. A nine - year - old has the same size brain as an adult ; therefore the two learn languages in the ...
Since we are faced with so many cases in which a person's social roots correlate with their language abilities ... mainly from Europe , who rarely had the English - language ability to respond correctly , and even if they did have the ...
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Teaching Languages Using the Multiple Intelligences and the Senses | 15 |
The Role of the Sense of Smell in Language Learning | 21 |
Multiliteracy Skills | 31 |
TwoWay Immersion Programs in the United States | 47 |
MATH MUSIC AND MULTILINGUALS | 63 |
The Relationship Between Musical Ability and Foreign Languages Communication via Sounds and via Words | 65 |
SOCIETY AND LANGUAGES | 163 |
Third Culture Kids A Special Case for Foreign Language Learning | 165 |
The Yellow Streetcar Shaping a Polyphonic Identity | 171 |
Linguistic Hegemony Is There a Superior Language? | 189 |
Foreign Adoption and Bilingualism | 197 |
Bringing Up Bilingual Children in Scarce Language Environments How the Internet Can Help | 207 |
Multilingualism and Cosmopolitanism | 213 |
INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES | 233 |
Language Math and Thought Vygotskys Concept of Inner Speech | 81 |
Multilingual Mathematics | 91 |
DEGREES OF MULTILINGUALISM | 99 |
In the Beginning Was the Word Language and the Womb | 101 |
First Choice Option From Birth | 109 |
Bilingualism from Birth | 115 |
Trilingualism A Study of Children Growing Up with Three Languages | 129 |
What You Speak Only One Language? A Trilingual Familys Story | 151 |
A Voice within a Voice Federman TranslatingTranslating Federman | 235 |
Challenges to Normal Bilingualism Downs Syndrome Deafness and Dyslexia | 243 |
Conclusion | 255 |
Bibliography | 257 |
Subject Index | 277 |
Name Index | 283 |
About the Editor and Contributors | 293 |
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