Becoming Bilingual Readers: Identity, Translanguaging, and Biographic Biliteracy Profiles By Bobbie Kabuto
2021 | 128 Pages | ISBN: 0367493926 | PDF | 2 MB
Building on Bobbie Kabuto's groundbreaking 2010 book Becoming Biliterate, this book explores how identity impacts the development of bilingual readers and how reading practices are mediated by family and community contexts. Spotlighting bilingual readers from Spanish, Greek, Japanese and English language backgrounds, Kabuto offers an in-depth, interdisciplinary analysis of these readers' behaviors and identities through the original approach of Biographic Biliteracy Profiles. The Profiles serve as a culturally relevant assessment tool for developing meaningful narratives and can reveal how bilingual readers make sense of texts in the context of their home and school environments. An ideal approach for unpacking the complexity of bilingual reading behaviors and how they change across time, the Profiles allow readers to explore what a bilingual reader's identity means to becoming biliterate; the roles of code-switching and translanguaging; the influences of readers' families and communities; and how they all interact and shape readers' identities, behaviors and meaning-making. Offering practical applications on observing and documenting bilingual readers, this book is an invaluable resource for scholars and students in courses on bilingualism, L2/ESL reading, and multilingualism.

Longitudinal Interactional Histories: Bilingual and Biliterate Journeys of Mexican Immigrant-origin Youth by Amanda K. Kibler
English | EPUB | 2019 | 324 Pages | ISBN : 331998814X | 4.4 MB
This book explores the lives of five Mexican immigrant-origin youths in the United States, documenting their language and literacy journeys over an eight-year period from adolescence to young adulthood. In these qualitative case studies, the author uses a "longitudinal interactional histories approach" (LIHA) to explore literacy events in which the young people participated over time, telling the stories behind texts they created in order to better understand opportunities for bilingual and biliterate development available inside and outside of formal schooling.

Life as a Bilingual: Knowing and Using Two or More Languages
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1108838642 | 355 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
About half the world's population knows and uses two or more languages in everyday life, and an increasing number of parents are raising their children bilingual. This makes a resource on what it means to become and be bilingual all the more necessary. This book brings together a selection of posts from the author's highly successful Psychology Today blog, grouped by topic into 15 chapters. The topics covered include, among others, what it means to be bilingual, the extent of bilingualism, how someone becomes bilingual, how bilingualism is fostered in the family, the bilingual mind and brain, and bilingualism across the lifespan. It also includes the author's lively interviews with other experts, delving into their research and their own experience as bilinguals. Written in a highly engaging, readable style, this book is suitable for anyone who wants to better understand those who live with two or more languages.

New Bilingual Visual Dictionary (English–Chinese) by Sedat Turhan | 5.92 MB
English | 148 Pages

Title: 9781785088032
Author: Milet Publishing
Year: 2020

New Bilingual Visual Dictionary (English-Chinese) by Milet Publishing
English | June 30, 2017 | ISBN: 1785088831 | 148 pages | EPUB | 5.92 Mb

Foundations of Bilingual Memory by Roberto R. Heredia
English | PDF | 2014 | 301 Pages | ISBN : 1461492173 | 3.1 MB
Foundations of Bilingual Memory provides a valuable update to the field of bilingual memory and offers a new psychological perspective on how the bilingual mind encodes, stores, and retrieves information. This volume emphasizes theoretical issues, such as classic memory approaches, Compound-Coordinate Bilingualism, Bilingual Dual Coding Theory, and Working Memory, about which relatively little has been written in the bilingual domain. Also covered are:

Hock Huan Goh, "Mandarin Competence of Chinese-English Bilingual Preschoolers: A Corpus-based Analysis of Singaporean Children's Speech"
English | 2016 | pages: 266 | ISBN: 9811022232 | PDF | 2,0 mb
This book provides readers with a detailed sketch of the Mandarin competence of Chinese children in Singapore from different home language backgrounds. Their Mandarin competence is defined in terms of lexical diversity, syntactic complexity and code-switching tendency. The findings presented show that there are statistical differences in lexical diversity and syntactic complexity among the compared groups of children, and these differences in linguistic competence were found to be positively correlated to increased Mandarin exposure at home. They also demonstrate that there are statistical differences in code-switching tendency among the groups of children compared, which were found to be negatively correlated to increased exposure to Mandarin at home. A general relationship between home language exposure and Mandarin competence was established, although this relationship was found to be volatile, especially among children who are more bilingually exposed. This book shares these findings with linguists, language educators, and language policymakers, both local and international.

English | 2016 | ISBN: 9781310550713 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 1.98 MB
The lively, chatty little plants think they know some stuff, but when it comes to animals, they know nothing. One wild assumption leads to another and gets them into big trouble.This illustrated book is for bilingual children and others wishing to read a simple dual language text in English and German. For ease of understanding, the languages are displayed together mostly one or two sentences at a time and use everyday language of native speakers. Reading this fun bilingual story will help you learn German. We hope you enjoy the stories.

French-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary | 71.96 MB
English | 362 Pages

Title: French-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary
Author: Author Unknown
Year: 2017

German English Bilingual Visual Dictionary, Bilingual Edition | 111.07 MB
German | 364 Pages

Title: Bilingual Visual Dictionary
Author: DK
Year: 2020