Language processing in bilingual children / edited by Ellen Bialystok. - xiii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language modules and bilingual processing / Michael Sharwood Smith
Phonological processing in two languages / Ian Watson
Second-language learning in children : a model of language learning in social context / Lily Wong Fillmore
Interdependence of first- and second-language proficiency in bilingual children / Jim Cummins
Giving formal definitions : a linguistic or metalinguistic skill? / Catherine E. Snow [and others]
Metalinguistic dimensions of bilingual language proficiency / Ellen Bialystok
Translation skill and metalinguistic awareness in bilinguals / Marguerite Malakoff and Kenji Hakuta
Towards an explanatory model of the interaction between bilingualism and cognitive development / Rafael M. Diaz and Cynthia Klingler
Constructive processes in bilingualism and their cognitive growth effects / Janice Johnson
Language, cognition, and education of bilingual children / Ellen Bialystok and Jim Cummins


A collection of papers addressing issues in linguistics, psychology and education bearing on the abilities that bilingual children use to understand language, to perform highly specialized operations with language, and to function in school settings

College of Arts and Sciences Bachelor of Arts in Communication College of Education Bachelor of Secondary Education major in English


Text in English

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Bilingualism in children.
Education, Bilingual.
Psycholinguistics.

404.2 L26 / 1991