This text sets high standards for rigor and scientific approach to the
study of bilingualism and provides insights regarding the critical
issues of theory and practice, including the interdependence of
linguistic knowledge in bilinguals, the role of socioeconomic status,
the effect of different language usage patterns in the home, and the
role of schooling by single-language immersion as opposed to systematic
training in both home and target languages. The rich landscape of
outcomes reported in the volume should provide a frame for
interpretation and understanding of effects of bilingualism for years
to come.
Section A: Background
1. Assessing the Effects of Bilingualism
2. An Integrated Approach to Evaluating Effects
of Bilingualism in Miami School Children
Section B: Overall Results on Language use and Standardized
Test Performance
3. Bilingualism and Cultural Assimilation in Miami
Hispanic Children
4.
Effects of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education on Oral and Written
English Skills
5. Effects of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education on Oral
and Written Spanish Skills
6. Interdependence of Spanish and English
Knowledge in Language and Literacy among Bilingual Children
Section C: Probe Studies on Complex
Language Capabilities
7. Narrative Competence among Monolingual and
Bilingual School Children in Miami
8. Command of the
Mass/count Distinction in Bilingual and Monolingual Children
9. Grammatical Gender in Bilingual and Monolingual
Children
10. Monolingual and Bilingual
Acquisition
11. The Ability of Bilingual and
Monolingual Children to Perform Phonological Translation
Section D: A Retrospective View of the Research
12. Balancing Interpretations Regarding Effects of Bilingualism