Multimodal Communication in Young Multilingual Children - Learning Beyond Words

This longitudinal study explores young children's language acquisition in Korean-English multilingual households, investigating how children acquire multiple strategies of verbal and non-verbal communication and use a range of multimodal resources to communicate effectively with members of their family.

About the author

Jieun Kiaer is Professor of Korean Linguistics at the University of Oxford, UK. Her recent publications include Young Children's Foreign Language Anxiety: The Case of South Korea (with Jessica M. Morgan-Brown and Naya Choi, Multilingual Matters, 2021) and Multimodal Communication in Young Multilingual Children: Learning Beyond Words (Multilingual Matters, 2023).

Summary

This longitudinal study explores young children’s language acquisition in Korean-English multilingual households, investigating how children acquire multiple strategies of verbal and non-verbal communication and use a range of multimodal resources to communicate effectively with members of their family.

Product details

• Authors: Jieun Kiaer, Kiaer Jieun
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2023
• EAN: 9781800413337
• ISBN: 978-1-80041-333-7
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Series: Bilingual Education & Bilingua; Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Family & relationships, Language acquisition, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism, Relationships and families: advice, topics and issues