>>The Care and Education of Young Bilinguals: An Introduction for Professionals

ISBN: 1-85359-465-2
200 pp. | paper only | $15.00

Colin Baker

Comprehensive introduction for all professionals working with bilingual children. For speech therapists, doctors, psychologists, counselors, teachers, and special needs personnel. The book addresses among other issues: the nature of bilingual children, everyday language use of bilinguals, children as interpreters, code switching, dialects and bilingualism, home and school relationships, bilingual classrooms, language delay and language disorder.