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Language is one of humanity's greatest achievements, yet one which virtually all children achieve remarkably quickly. How much more remarkable, therefore, when children learn not one but two languages! There are many single case studies describing children from families where determined parents adopt strategies to maximise their children's chances of becoming bilingual. Many more children, whose parents speak a mixture of languages, also become bilingual without this extra help. How this occurs and why some children have more problems than others in a bilingual environment are some of the issues addressed by this book, which is a longitudinal study of how children learn to use more than one language. The family is assumed to be the key factor in these processes, and bilingual language development is placed firmly within an interactive context, as it is from this context that the development of childhood bilingualism can best be understood. Thus the aims of this book are to examine how young children become bilingual, and to show what factors predict early childhood bilingualism.

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Dr Jean Lyon is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and an expert in the field of child and family relationships. She has made a long-term study of children's communication and how they use language, and how language is used in the family setting. She is an honorary lecturer in Psychology at the University of Wales, Bangor, and is currently researching the incidence of a wide range of problems in bilingual children and their families.

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  • PublisherMultilingual Matters
  • Publication date1996
  • ISBN 10 1853593184
  • ISBN 13 9781853593185
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages288
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