The Conversation, 11 november 2019 For many people with dementia, memories of early childhood appear more vivid than their fragile sense of the present. But what happens when the present is experienced through a different language than the one spoken in childhood? And how might carers and care homes cope with the additional level of complexity in looking after bilingual people living with...
Bron: De Morgen, 23 oktober 2019 “Wat zonde!” Dat is meestal de reactie die ik krijg wanneer ik vertel dat mijn kinderen thuis geen Turks leren. Mijn vriend, wiens ouders in Turkije zijn geboren, wil dat onze dochter en zoon gewoon goed Nederlands spreken. Moet ik mij schuldig voelen dat ik mijn kroost die extra taalkennis ontzeg? En hoe pak je tweetalig opvoeden eigenlijk aan? Meer...
items, Insights from the Social Sciences Alexander Duchêne’s contribution to the “Sociolinguistics Frontiers” series traces the ways in which multilingualism has been understood and valued by scholars and beyond. Duchêne shows how the work of sociolinguistics dramatically shifted the image of multilingual speakers and societies as a problem for nation-states to something to be...
Source: Healthy Linguistic Diet, 27 mars 2019 The terms bilingualism, multilingualism, and more recently plurilingualism, are used more and more frequently in public discourse, whether we speak about schools and education, immigration and multicultural societies, language policy, exclusion or inclusion. But what is the difference between them? Are they referring to different concepts? The three...
vrttaal.net, 24 september 2019
In Brussel groeit bijna de helft van de jonge kinderen (49 procent) op in een familie waarin meerdere talen gesproken worden. Dat blijkt uit een studie van de Franstalige universiteit ULB op verzoek van het Observatoire de l’enfant, waarover ‘La Libre Belgique’ dinsdag bericht. Meer lezen... >>>>>
Kennislink, 31 mei 2018
Van de intonatie van een taal zijn we ons vaak weinig bewust. Toch storen veel mensen zich aan een ‘buitenlands accent’. Maar uit onderzoek van Lieke van Maastricht blijkt dat een verkeerde intonatie het begrijpen van spraak niet in de weg staat. Bovendien kun je je trainen in het horen van de verschillen in melodie en ritme. Meer lezen... >>>>>
The Conversation, 29 July 2019 People often say that babies are like little sponges — with their ability to soak up language quickly and easily. Yet much of the early research on language acquisition has focused on young infants learning only one language. This research was guided by an implicit assumption that learning one language is the usual and optimal way to learn to talk. This idea...
Carmen Silva-Corvalán, University of Southern California Jeanine Treffers-Daller, University of Reading View all contributors Cambridge University Press, May 2019, ISBN: 9781108718745 With contributions from leading scholars of bilingualism, Language Dominance in Bilinguals is the first publication to survey different approaches to language dominance, along with suggested avenues for further...
La voce di Bolzano, 8 agosto 2019 Un’educazione plurilingue, sin dalla più tenera età, ha effetti positivi su tutti gli aspetti cognitivi dei bambini, e migliora le competenze non solo in campo linguistico ma in tutto ciò che ha a che fare con la creatività. E’ questo il risultato che emerge dal progetto di ricerca “MELA – Mehrsprachig Ladinisch“, presentato questa mattina (7...
Par Sylvie Blanchet Publié le 7 août 2019 à 10h30 Il n’y a, à mes yeux, pas grand-chose de plus passionnant que de voir un tout petit s’emparer du langage … Quelle immense découverte : on peut se faire comprendre, on peut solliciter de l’aide, on peut donner son avis, bref on entre de plain-pied dans ce que l’espèce humaine a de plus spécifique ! Quelle immense...
Being multilingual can be a stronger part of one's identity than race By Susanna Zaraysky - July 15, 2019 For those of us who are bilingual or multilingual, our languages may shape our identities and cultural affiliations more so than race, economic status or religion. With about 20% of children in the US population speaking another language at home, and more kids going to...
January 2019 Source: AThEME In this article, researchers focus on disentangling the effects of bilingualism and dyslexia in tasks assessing phonological abilities of monolingual and bilingual, impaired/non-impaired children regarding morphological abilities, grammatical abilities and implicit learning. Results suggest that bilingualism, far from being a disadvantage, can offer linguistic and...