Bibliograph

Growing up with three languages, from birth to eleven, Xiao-lei Wang

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Growing up with three languages, from birth to eleven, Xiao-lei Wang

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Growing up with three languages

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Xiao-lei Wang

Series statement

Parents' and teachers' guides, 11

Sub title

from birth to eleven

Summary

This work is for parents who live in a foreign country and intend to raise their children in their own heritage language(s). It offers helpful suggestions for this challenging situation and provides useful strategies for the daily interactions between parent and children., This book is based on an eleven-year observation of two children who were simultaneously exposed to three languages from birth. It tells the story of two parents from different cultural, linguistic, and ethnic-racial backgrounds who joined to raise their two children with their heritage languages outside their native countries. It also tells the children's story and the way they negotiated three cultures and languages and developed a trilingual identity. It sheds light on how parental support contributed to the children's simultaneous acquisition of three languages in an environment where the main input of the two heritage languages came respectively from the father and from the mother. It addresses the challenges and the unique language developmental characteristics of the two children during their trilingual acquisition process

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