Language Development

Language Development and Children – Must Read Books and Articles

Language Development
Language Development
I have always been amazed by the way language develops through the years, from childhood to adulthood. A couple of months ago, though, I started to be especially interested in knowing how bilingual children’s language developed. I made a search on internet, since there is no library in Thailand to be found, and obtained all kind of explanations more or less trustful. So why I decided to contact Dr Daniel Meier, professor of education at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in order to know more about it and get a list of documents and articles I could really trust.

Language Development: UCSF EED 708 Suggested Course Bibliography

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Affolder, F. & Bischofberger, W. (2000). Nonverbal perceptual and cognitive processes in children with language disorders. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

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Applebee, A.N. (1978). The child’s concept of story: Ages two to seventeen. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Assessing the language development of a first and a second language in early childhood: A resource guide. (1998). Calif. Dept. of Education.

Bailey, Becky & Carolyn Brookes. (2003). Thinking out loud: Development of private speech and the implications for school success and self-control. Young Children, (58) 5, 46-52.

Baker, C. (2000). A Parents’ and Teachers’ Guide to Bilingualism. (2nd edition). Tonawanda, NY: Multilingual Matters.

Baker, C. (2000). The care and education of young bilinguals: An introduction for professionals. Tonawanda, NY: Multilingual Matters.

Bakhtin, M.M. (1986). Speech genres and other late essays. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Ballenger, C. (1999). Teaching other people’s children: Literacy and learning in a bilingual classroom. New York: Teachers College Press.

Berk, L.E. (1994). Why children talk to themselves. Scientific American, pp. 78-83.

Berko-Gleason, J., & Weintraub, S. (1976). The acquisition of routines in child language. Language in Society, 5, 137-151.

Beykort, L. (2000). (Ed.). Lift every voice: Pedagogy and politics of bilingualism. Harvard University Press.

Bilingual Family Newsletter. Grover, S. & Grover, M. (Eds.). Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters.

Brisk, M.E. & Harrington, M.M. (2006). Literacy and bilingualism: A handbook for all teachers (2nd ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

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Cazden, C. (2003). Classroom discourse: The language of teaching and learning (2nd. Ed.). Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Educational Books.

Chomsky, C. (1969). The acquisition of syntax in children from 5 to 10. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Chukovsky, K. From two to five. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Craig, H.K. & Washington, J.A. (2006). Malik goes to school: Examining the language skills of African American students from preschool-5th grade. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Day, E.M. (2002). Identity and the young English language learner. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters.

de Boysson-Bardies, B. (1999). How language comes to children: From birth to two years. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Lisa Delpit. (Ed.) (2002). The skin that we speak: Thoughts on language and culture in the classroom. New York: The New Press.

Susan Engel. (1995). The stories children tell: Making sense of the narratives of childhood (pp. 23-57). NY: W.H. Freeman & Co.

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Diaz Soto, L. (1997). (Ed.). Language, culture, and power: Bilingual families and the struggle for quality education. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

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Fillmore, L.W. (1989). Language and cultural issues in early education. In S.L. Kagan (Ed.), The care and education of America’s young children: Obstacles and opportunities, pp. 1-19.

Fostering the language development of a first and a second language in early childhood: A resource guide. (1998). Calif. Dept. of Education.

Freeman, D. & Freeman, Y. (2001). Between worlds: Access to second language acquisition. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Gadzikowski, A. (2007). Story dictation: A guide for early childhood professionals. St. Paul, MN: Redleaf Press.

Fred Genesee, Johanne Paradis, & Martha B. Crago. (2004). Dual language development & disorders: A handbook on bilingualism and second language learning. Baltimore, Maryland: Paul Brookes Publishing.

Ghafouri, F., Wien, Carol Anne.(2005) “Give us a privacy”: Play social literacy in young children. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 19(4), 279-291.

Genesee, F. (1994). (Ed.) Educating second language children. Cambridge.

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Halliday, M.A.K. (1973). Explorations in the functions of language. London: Edward Arnold.

Halliday, M.A.K. (1980). Three aspects of children’s language development: Learning language, learning through language, learning about language. In Y.M. Goodman & D.S. Strickland (Eds.), Oral and written language development research: Impact on the schools. Urbana, IL: NCTE.

Heath, S.B. (1982). What no bedtime story means: Narrative skills at home and school. Language in Society, 11, 2, pp. 49-76.

Heath, S.B. (1983). Ways with words. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hoffman, C. & Ytsma, J. (2004). Trilingualism in Family, School, and Community. Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters.

Hurley, J. The foundations of dual language instruction. Longman.

King, Helen. (2007). The language barrier: A handbook for parents and teachers. United Kingdom: Trafford Publishing.

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Meier, D. (2004). The young child’s memory for words: First and second language and literacy learning. New York: Teachers College Press.

Meier, Daniel. (2009). (Ed.). Here’s the story: Using narrative to promote children’s language and literacy learning. New York: Teachers College Press.

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Saville-Troike, M. (1982). The development of bilingual and bicultural competence in young children. In L.G. Katz (Ed.), Current topics in early childhood education (vol. 4). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

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Smitherman, G. (1981). “What go round come round”: King in perspective. Harvard Educational Review, 40-56.

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Stefanakis, E.H. (1998). Whose judgment counts? Assessing bilingual children, K-3. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Tabors, Patton. (2008). One child, two languages, 2nd Edition. Brookes Publishing.

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van Keulen, J., Weddington, G.T., & Debose, C.E. (1998). Speech, language, and the African American child. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.

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Verhoeven, L. & van Balkom, H. (2004). (Eds.). Classification of developmental language disorders. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Vygotsky, L.S. (1978). Mind in society. Cole, M., John-Steiner, V., Scribner, S., & Souberman, E., (Eds.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Vygotsky, L.S. (1986). Thought and Language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Weir, R.H. (1962). Language in the crib. Hague: Mouton.

Weitzman, E. (2000). Learning language and loving it: A guide for promoting children’s social and language development in early childhood settings, (2nd Ed.). Washington, DC: Zero to Three.

Wells, G. (1985). Preschool literacy-related activities and success in school. In D.R. Olson, N. Torrance, & A. Hildyard (Eds.), Literacy, language, and learning (pp. 229-256). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Wells, G. (1986). The language experience of five-year-old children at home and at school. In J. Cook-Gumperz (Ed.), The social construction of literacy (p. 69-93). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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American Annals of the Deaf

Child Care Information Exchange

Developmental Psychology

Discourse Processes

Harvard Educational Review

International Multilingual Research Journal

Journal of Early Childhood Education

Journal of Early Childhood Literacy

Journal of Language, Identity, and Education

Journal of Latinos and Education

Language Learning and Development

Journal of Literacy Research

Language Acquisition

Language Arts

Language Assessment Quarterly

Reading Research Quarterly

Reading Teacher

Research on Language and Social Interaction

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Storytelling, Self, Society

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