Books For Parents

Want to keep up-to-date in the field of childhood bilingualism?
Or maybe you have been looking for German-language activities for your children?
by Alice Lapuerta

Childhood Bilingualism: Research on Infancy
through School Age

Editors: Peggy McCardle and Erika Hoff

Childhood Bilingualism is a collection of articles originally presented at a workshop in Washington DC in 2004. Contributors are a wide group of renowned international linguists and experts in the field of bilingualism and biliteracy development. The volume discusses a wide variety of topics such
as bilingual speech processing in infants and adults, speech perception, language acquisition, the onset of word form recognition, social factors in bilingual development, literacy, and bilingualism at school.  The main goal is to put into perspective the state of current research in the field, and to delineate a research agenda for the future. This book will be of interest to those seek to be up-to-date with latest developments in the science, and who appreciate reading an impressive survey of the field.

Childhood Bilingualism is the 7th volume in the series Child Language &
Child Development, published by Multilingual Matters Ltd and is available
for purchase at Multilingual Matters: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/.

Spiel mit Deutsch: Kinder als Sprachforscher und Entdecker

by Elke Montanari

Spiel mit Deutsch: Kinder als Sprachforscher und Entdecker contains a wide repertoire of ideas and activities which aim at fostering
German language development of children. This book will be of interest to preschool, kindergarten, elementary school teachers, as well as playgroup leaders who seek playful ways of motivating children to speak correct German. Activities focus on all senses: telling and speaking, dancing and touching, eating and tasting, drawing and writing, seeing and hearing. The book provides coloring sheets, detailed lesson plans, game boards, short stories, play cards, and more! Even though most activities are geared towards a group setting, parents who seek material to improve their children's German find some tips and ideas of use as well. The material and content presented is freely adaptable to any child, group or situation. The book will prove valuable not only to children who are native speakers, but also to speakers of German as a second language, as well as to multilingual children who have German as one of their languages. Recommendable for children ages 5 and up. The language is in German.

Spiel mit Deutsch is published by Herder Verlag, Germany.

The book is available at Kindergarten Fachversand online as well as at Amazon.de.

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