Bilingualism & Multilingualism

Maria Andreou Language and Cognitive Aspects of Child Bilingualism

Research Observations and Classroom Applications

Berlin, 2021 . 192 pp ., 4 fig . col ., 33 fig . b/w, 32 tables . Inquiries in Language Learning. Forschungen zu Psycholinguistik und Fremdsprachendidaktik. Vol. 28

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This book investigates how bilingualism affects children’s language, cognitive and narrative abilities . The data sample derives from 209 8-12 years old bilingual children, in three different targeted languages (Greek-English, Greek-German, Greek-Albanian) along with 100 monolingual Greek children . The children completed baseline and experimental tasks measuring their vocabulary, grammar, cognitive skills, and narrative production abilities . The outcome of this work reveals that learning to read and write in two languages is beneficial for the development of language and cognitive skills . A strong case can be made to the growing bilingual communities in Germany and beyond to provide literacy training in both languages within mainstream schools, afternoon classes outside of the curriculum or in community schools .

Güler Dogan Averbek• Harald Bichlmeier Almanca Tuhfe/Deutsches Geschenk (1916): The Only Versified Turkish-German Dictionary

with an Introduction on Versified Dictionaries as Coursebooks

Berlin, 2020 . 258 pp ., 1 fig . b/w, 1 tables .

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Poetic books have been used for centuries in the tradition of Islamic education . Namely, it benefits from the quality rhymed and metered texts have of easily being remembered, aiming for students to easily acquire information using texts of this type, as well as for the information to permanently stay in the student’s memory . The area covered by the versified dictionaries that had begun being written for children whose native language was not Arabic for the purpose of better understanding the Qur’an, the sacred book of Islam, expanded over time, and versified dictionaries were written in various languages for various reasons . The work presented in this study for the fi rst time to the scientific world through an academic perspective is Almanca Tuhfe/Deutsches Geschenk (The Gift of German), which was published in Istanbul in 1916 .

Ulrich Hoinkes• Matthias L.G. Meyer (Hrsg.) Der Einfluss der Migration auf Sprach- und Kulturräume / The Impact of Migration on Linguistic and Cultural Areas

Berlin, 2020 . 308 S ., 7 s/w Abb ., 26 Tab . Kieler Forschungen zur Sprachwissenschaft. Bd. 11

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Migrationen verändern bestehende Sprach- und Kulturräume . Nur mithilfe genauerer migrationswissenschaftlicher Kenntnisse der Bedingungen des individuellen und sozialen Sprachgebrauchs können kleinere Sprachgemeinschaften von Migranten gegenüber konkurrierenden Nationalsprachen geschützt werden . Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes widmen sich diesem Thema aus dem Blickwinkel unterschiedlicher Länder und Fachrichtungen, darunter der Sprachkontaktforschung, der Soziolinguistik, der Bildungspolitik, der Neurophänomenologie und den Kulturwissenschaften . Migration alters existing linguistic and cultural areas . Only a more precise knowledge of the conditions that determine individual and social language use enables us to protect smaller speech communities of migrants from competing national languages . The contributions in this volume examine this range of topics from the perspective of various countries and research disciplines including language contact studies, sociolinguistics, education policy, neurophenomenology and cultural studies .