Young Bilingual Learners in Nursery School

by Linda Thompson

Book Overview

This book presents the findings of an ethnolinguistic study of the language and social behaviour of a group of three-year-old British-born children from families of settled migrants who speak languages other than English in their homes and communities. The study draws from a number of research disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology and ethnography to provide an analytical description of the social and linguistic behaviour of the children...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853594539
• ISBN13: 9781853594533
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Length: 240 Pages