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ERIC Number: EJ726768
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005
Pages: 3
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-1070-1214
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Working with the Bilingual Child Who Has a Language Delay. Meeting Learning Challenges
Greenspan, Stanley I.
Early Childhood Today, v20 n3 p27-29 Nov-Dec 2005
It is very important to determine if a bilingual child's language delay is simply in English or also in the child's native language. Understandably, many children have higher levels of language development in the language spoken at home. To discover if this is the case, observe the child talking with his parents. Sometimes, even without understanding what they are saying, one can get a pretty good sense of a higher language level simply from the amount and rhythm of the back-and-forth exchange and through facial expressions. It may be that a 3-year-old who rarely talks in an English-speaking environment is really a little chatterbox in his native language. If someone interprets the parent-child conversation, one can assess where the child is in his or her native language. If his level is age-appropriate, the English will emerge just by having many opportunities to listen and speak. This article offers recommendations for when a child has delays in both languages.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative
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Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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