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Title

Young bilingual children in nursery schools / Linda Thompson.

Author

Thompson, Linda, 1949-

Publication

Clevedon, England ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, c2000.

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Description

vii, 230 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

"This book presents the findings of an ethnolinguistic study carried out in the northeast of England into the language and social behaviour of a group of three-year-old children during their first term in formal education. The children are third generation British, born into families of settled migrants who speak languages other than English in their homes and communities." "Although the study was located in the UK where English is the national and societal language, the findings (and research methods used) have implications for children in other societies where English is the formal language of education. The book will be of interest to parents, teachers and others concerned with the lives of young children."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Bilingual education and bilingualism ; 18

Uniform Title

Bilingual education and bilingualism 18.

Subject

• Education, Bilingual > Great Britain
• Language arts (Preschool) > Great Britain
• Children of immigrants > Education (Preschool) > Great Britain
• Children of minorities > Education (Preschool) > Great Britain
• Nursery schools > Great Britain

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-226) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1 Who is Bilingual in Britain? 1 -- Britain's Linguistic and Cultural Heritage 2 -- Geography and History of the Panjab Region 3 -- Linguistic Composition of the Panjab 4 -- Historic Development of Urdu 6 -- Describing and Defining Urdu 7 -- Patterns of Migration and Settlement in Britain 8 -- First Migrants 10 -- Mirpuri Community in Pakistan and Cleveland 12 -- Education Provision within the Biradari 19 -- Attitudes to Language Learning within the Mirpuri Community 20 -- 2 Development of Education for Bilingual Children in Britain 22 -- Assimilationist Approach 22 -- Pluralist Approach of Multicultural Education 25 -- Anti-racist Education Movement 28 -- Swann Report -- Education for All? 29 -- Current Policy in Britain 33 -- English in the National Curriculum 34 -- Future Policy for Bilingual Pupils in Britain 35 -- Bilingual Children in Pre-school 37 -- 3 Theoretical Frameworks: Influences and Inspirations 39 -- Lev Vygotsky -- the Social Psychologist 39 -- Language as Socio-semiotic 42 -- Critics of Systemic Linguistics 48 -- Other Descriptions of Child Language Development 48 -- A Social Construct of Bilingualism 50 -- 4 Box Hill Nursery Project 55 -- Rationale for the Study 55 -- Importance of the Nursery School in a Young Child's Life 59 -- A Discussion of Research Methods 60 -- A Quantitative Paradigm for the Study of Communicative Competence 69 -- A Suggested Framework for Ethnolinguistic Descriptive Analysis 69 -- Box Hill Nursery Project 72 -- 5 TOTs -- A Time-on-task Analysis 85 -- Levels of Data Analysis 85 -- Introduction to Level 1 of Data Analysis 85 -- Previous Observational Studies of Classrooms 86 -- Contextual Observations 88 -- Graphs of Time-on-task during the First Hour in Box Hill Nursery School 90 -- Graphs Comparing First-day and End-of-term Observations 95 -- Comparison between First-day and End-of-term Activities 98 -- Observations and Comments on the Data Analysis 99 -- 6 Children Creating Social Contexts 102 -- Introduction to Level 2 of the Data Analysis 102 -- Ethnography of Communication -- Speaking 102 -- Social Context of Language Development 104 -- Previous Studies of the Structure of Classrooms 105 -- Space and Place in the Nursery Setting 106 -- Box Hill Nursery Setting 107 -- Data 108 -- Four Types of Pupil Behaviour during the First Term in the Nursery 110 -- Changes in Behaviour during the First Term in the Nursery 126 -- 7 Social Networks and the Process of Enculturation 130 -- Introduction to Level 3 of Data Analysis 130 -- Concept of Social Network Analysis as a Research Method 130 -- Analysis of the Social Networks in Box Hill Nursery 134 -- Characteristic Features of Friendship Networks 151 -- Contextualising Social Network Analysis 153 -- 8 Children's Language Choice: English Utterances 156 -- Introduction to Level 4 of the Data Analysis 156 -- Transcribing the Discourse Data 157 -- Coding the Transcripts 157 -- Children's Use of English on their First Day in Box Hill Nursery 163 -- Echoing 169 -- Children's Utterances during their First Hour in the Nursery 173 -- 9 Codeswitching as a Feature of Bilingual Children's Language 177 -- Introduction to Level 5 of the Data Analysis 177 -- Codeswitching as a Feature of Bilingual Interactions 177 -- Types of Codeswitch 179 -- Language and Ethnic Identity 190 -- Discussion of Data 193 -- Situational Codeswitching 194 -- Discourse of Schools 194 -- Factors Influencing Language Choice 195 -- 10 Linguistic Biographies 199 -- Concept of Ethnicity 199 -- Language and Ethnic Identity 205 -- Language and Ethnicity: A Network of Ecological Relations 205 -- Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory 206 -- Defining Linguistic Biographies 211 -- Linking Bronfenbrenner's EST to Other Theoretical Frameworks 214.

ISBN

• 1853594547 (hard : alk. paper)
• 1853594539 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99036331^

OCLC

• 41592987
• SCSB-10760127

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library