As is widely accepted, language learning success is best predicted by two factors: learners’ aptitude and motivation.
As teachers are key stakeholders in shaping learners’ motivation, they play the major part in the foreign language education game.
Although no chapter discusses teacher education explicitly, the implications from these studies are hoped to be obvious and relevant.

This book sheds light on some of the common myths around being bilingual and explores the processes of dual language development among Korean American children. It sensibly argues that the bilingualism of linguistic minority children is a resource to be cultivated and treasured, not a problem to be overcome.

An invaluable set of photocopiable picture prompts for essential language work.
Topics include:
Food and drink, leisure, travel, weather and calendar, people and jobs, vital verbs, holidays, round the town.

-Over 300 cartoon pictures and picture boards including blank masters for adaptation.
-Use for both presentation and practice.
-Detailed, easy to follow Teachers' Notes with suggestions for 500 games and activities.
-For work with small or large groups.
-Beginners to Advanced.
-Age 10 to Adult.
-Vocabulary lists.

This unique hands-on lab manual in child development provides great ideas and resources for teaching research courses involving child subjects. It includes projects in psychomotor/perceptual, cognitive, and social development. Projects are preceded by background essays on the history of that topic, related research, theoretical issues, and controversies. Each project has hypotheses to test, detailed procedures to follow, all stimuli, individual and group data sheets, empty tables, suggested statistics, discussion questions, and an updated bibliography.

The book describes three siblings' apportioning of linguistic and cultural space among three languages: Portuguese, Swedish and English. Parallel strategies accounting for monolingual and multilingual language management shape a truly illuminating picture of child linguistic competence. Written by a multilingual parent, educator and linguist, this book is for parents, educators and linguists in our predominantly, increasingly multilingual world.