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Harding, Edith; Riley, Philip – 1986
Designed as a resource for parents, this book provides them with the information and advice they need to make informed decisions about what language "policy" to adopt with their children. The authors, professional applied linguists, draw on their own experience as parents of successfully bilingual children and on interviews with other bilingual…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, Child Language, Decision Making
Download full textMcEntee, Lisa J. – 1994
This paper investigates several features of deaf mothers' behavior that have been identified as playing crucial roles in facilitating natural language acquisition in deaf children, including gaining the attention of the child, modification of the structure and content of adult language or motherese, and maintenance of communication and periods of…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Child Language, Deafness, Foreign Countries
