The Multilingual Mind Issues Discussed by, for, and about People Living with Many Languages

Subjects:

• Education » Second Language Learning/ESL
• Anthropology » Linguistics

Reviews:

• [r]elevance for anyone interested in better understanding the role of language in shaping identity. Particularly informative is the research on language learning in challenging situations such as Down's syndrome, deafness, dyslexia , or in cross-cultural adoptions. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Parents, students, teachers, and researchers interested in the study of bilingualism and multilingualism. Lower-division undergraduates and above.
  —Choice December 2003
• Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa has carved a niche for herself in the field of multilingual research with this volume. Reflecting upon her personal journey as a multilingual educator, she has successfully edited and compiled an eclectic body of essays dealing with issues ranging from myths on multilingualism to social and individual language learner differences. By uniting a heterogeneous group of researchers and writers, Tokuhama-Espinosa provides an insightful overview of the dimensions of multilingualism equally appealing to newcomers or well-established researchers in the field....[a]n open road map for further paths of research in multilingual education.
  —International Journal of Multilingualism 2007

• Endorsement From Pamela Walsh OBE
  Director General & Founder of ASC International House Language School: This series of excellent essays speaks to the heart of a language school in Geneva, the crossroads of so many cultures and languages. An excellent balance of sound scientific knowledge and practical personal experience.
• Endorsement From Barbara F. Schaetti, Ph.D.
  President, Transition Dynamics: The Multilingual Mind is an important resource for anyone interested in the latest thinking on the topic. Warm and welcoming, it offers guidance and insight to parents, teachers, and multilingual adults alike, as well as to monolinguals who may choose to engage this adventure we call multilingualism.
• Endorsement From David Pollock
  Executive Director, Interaction International Inc.: I am absolutely delighted in anticipating that there will be a book that I can place in the hands of parents and educators that responds clearly to the challenge of multilingualism in its various contexts. Tracey has done all of us a great service in pulling these authors with personal experience and academic credentials together to speak with clarity to the issues of the multilingual mind.
• Endorsement From Pilar Cabeza de Vaca
  Head, The American School in Paris: The Multilingual Mind offers a realistic and very pragmatic approach to multilingualism. This book is a wonderful tool for both parents and teachers and affirms what research and experience tell us about people's ability to learn languages. This work should become part of the educational mainstream, as learning languages opens us to becoming more culturally sensitive, a skill that is essential in today's globalized world.

Table of Contents:

• Tables and Charts
• Contributing Authors
• Preface
• Introduction by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
• Myths About Multilingualism
• Myths About Multilingualism by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
• Schooling and Foreign Languages
• Teaching Languages Using the Multiple Intelligences and Senses by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
• The Role of the Sense of Smell in Language Learning by Sara Ackerman Aoyama
• Mulitliteracy Skills by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
• Two-Way Immersion Programs in the United States by Jennifer Frengel
• The Relationship Between Musical Ability and Foreign Languages by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
• Language, Math, and Thought: Vygotsky's Concept of Inner Speech by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
• Primary Multilingual Mathematics by Marie Petraitis
• Degrees of Multilingualism
• Languages in the Womb by Andrea Bader-Rusch
• First Choice Option: From Birth by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
• Bilingualism from Birth by Manuela Gonzalez-Bueno
• Trilingualism: A Study of Children Growing Up With Three Languages by Suzanne Hauwaert-Barron
• What, You Only Speak One Language!? A Trilingual Family's Story by Nicola Kupelikilinc
• Society and Languages
• Third Culture Kids: A Special Case for Foreign Language Learning by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
• The Yellow Streetcar: Thoughts and Stories About a Polyphonic Identity by Christina Allemann-Ghionda
• Linguistic Hegemony: Is There a Superior Language by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
• Foreign Adoption and Bilingual Children in Scarce Language Environments: Let the Internet Help! by Maria Johnson
• Multilingualism and Cosmopolitanism by Konrad Gunesch
• Individual Differences
• A Voice Within a Voice: Federman Translating/Translating Federman, A Question of Linguistic Identity by Raymond Federman
• Challenges to Normal Foreign Language Learning: Dyslexia, Downs Syndrome, Deafness by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
• Conclusion by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
• Bibliography
• Index