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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Teaching Languages Using the Multiple Intelligences and the Senses Tracey Tokuhama - Espinosa 21 3. The Role of the Sense of Smell in Language Learning Sara Ackerman Aoyama 31 4. Multiliteracy Skills Tracey Tokuhama - Espinosa 47 5.
Tables and Figures TABLES 16 27 35 42 93 104 2.1 The Seven Intelligences and Five Senses 3.1 Suggested Scents and Their Functions 4.1 Motivation Types 4.2 The Spoken Versus the Written Word 8.1 Bilingual Children in Math Survey 9.1 ...
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 ...
... is actually categorized by many educators as a type of intelligence , and those individuals with many languages are increasingly admired for such a skill . Third , children often mix their languages during a certain stage in their ...
... In the 1950s it was commonplace in the United States to blame multiple languages for problems such as stuttering and dyslexia . Many intelligence tests a showed that immigrants not only had lower rates of 4 The Multilingual Mind.
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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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