Language and Literacy in Bilingual Children

D. Kimbrough Oller, is Professor and Plough Chair of Excellence at the University of Memphis School of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology.  He is author of over 150 articles in language and speech, and an international authority in language learning.  His research on English and Spanish-learning children as well as bilingual children is widely published, and his earlier book The Emergence of the Speech Capacity brings together results of his research of thirty years.Rebecca E. Eilers is Professor of Psychology and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Maine.  For nearly thirty years she has been a leading figure in infant speech perception and young child language as the primary author of a substantial literature on development of linguistic capabilities in children with Spanish and/or English in the home.

• Acknowledgements Part 1: Background1 D. Kimbrough Oller and Barbara Zurer Pearson: Assessing the Effects of Bilingualism: A Background2 D. Kimbrough Oller and Rebecca E. Eilers: An Integrated Approach to Evaluating Effects of Bilingualism in Miami School Children: The Study DesignPart 2: Overall Results on Language Use and Standardized Test Performance3 Rebecca E. Eilers, D. Kimbrough Oller and Alan B. Cobo-Lewis: Bilingualism and Cultural Assimilation in Miami Hispanic Children4 Alan B. Cobo-Lewis, Barbara Zurer Pearson, Rebecca E. Eilers and Vivian C. Umbel: Effects of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education on Oral and Written English Skills: A Multifactor Study of Standardized Test Outcomes5 Alan B. Cobo-Lewis, Barbara Zurer Pearson, Rebecca E. Eilers and Vivian C. Umbel: Effects of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education on Oral and Written Spanish Skills: A Multifactor Study of Standardized Test Outcomes6 Alan B. Cobo-Lewis, Rebecca E. Eilers, Barbara Zurer Pearson and Vivian C. Umbel: Interdependence of Spanish and English Knowledge in Language and Literacy Among Bilingual ChildrenPart 3: Probe Studies on Complex Language Capabilities7 Barbara Zurer Pearson: Narrative Competence among Monolingual and Bilingual School Children in Miami8 Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole: Command of the Mass/Count Distinction in Bilingual and Monolingual Children: An English Morphosyntactic Distinction9 Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole: Grammatical Gender in Bilingual and Monolingual Children: A Spanish Morphosyntactic Distinction10 Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole: Monolingual and Bilingual Acquisition: Learning Different Treatments of that-trace Phenomena in English and Spanish11 D. Kimbrough Oller and Alan B. Cobo-Lewis: The Ability of Bilingual and Monolingual Children to Perform Phonological TranslationPart 4: A Retrospective View of the Research12 D. Kimbrough Oller and Rebecca E. Eilers: Balancing Interpretations Regarding Effects of Bilingualism: Empirical Outcomes and Theoretical PossibilitiesReferences Index