Stephen J Caldas

Broschiertes Buch

Raising Bilingual-Biliterate Children in Monolingual Cultures

Beschreibung

This book is a longitudinal case study carefully detailing the French/English bilingual and biliterate development of three children in one family. The book focuses most specifically on the children's acquisition of French and English during their early through late adolescence, in both their Louisiana and Québec home environments.

Autor

Stephen J. Caldas is professor of educational foundations and leadership at the University of Louisiana--Lafayette. He has co-authored three previous books (with Carl L. Bankston III) including the just published book Forced to Fail: The Paradox of School Desegregation (published by Praeger in 2005), and A Troubled Dream: The Promise and Failure of School Desegregation in Louisiana (2002, Vanderbilt University Press). His research interests include psycholinguistics, socio/psychometrics, desegregation and the social/political contexts of education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Multilingual Matters
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 326g
• ISBN-13: 9781853598753
• ISBN-10: 1853598755
• Artikelnr.: 23257364