Overview
As bilingual individuals enter the educational system and the clinical landscape, they struggle with intricate, often painful questions of identity, culture, and assimilation. Professionals working with these individuals need to complement their knowledge of specific cultural issues with the psychological processes that all bilingual speakers share. The Bilingual Mind: Thinking, Feeling, and Speaking in Two Languages fills a critical gap in the cross-cultural literature by illuminating the bilingual experience in both its social and clinical contexts. Rafael Javier makes a convincing, empirically founded case for what he terms the bilingual mind, with its own particular approach to cognition, memory, and emotional and social development. From this framework, he proceeds to salient but seldom examined questions such as: What are the effects of bilingualism on cognitive development? Is some degree of language shifting always present in bilingual thinking? Do interpreters improve or compromise communication? What assessment instruments are best suited to bilingual individuals? What are the key issues in providing appropriate treatment interventions to bilingual patients? How can professionals be better trained to work with this population? Given the prevalence of -- and controversies surrounding-- bilingualism today, the author intends his text to benefit a wide range of therapists, education professionals, and scholars. The Bilingual Mind will prove as valuable to the frontline clinician and the evaluator as to the linguistic student and the policymaker designing the future of bilingual services.
Full Product Details
Author: Rafael Art Javier
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition: Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 0.90cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9781441940414
ISBN 10: 1441940413
Pages: 154
Publication Date: 19 November 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
From the reviews: Provides a fresh perspective on crosscultural literature by placing a renewed importance on the role that bilingual experience plays in perception, memory, intelligence, learning and emotional formation. This book is mainly directed at therapists and education professionals. ... SLA researchers can benefit from an innovative perspective to the bilingual mind that interweaves psycholinguistic issues with questions of identity and culture. ... information about the languages spoken in the United States and an excellent overview of tests to assess less proficient and less acculturated bilinguals. (Nuria Sagarra, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Vol. 31 (3), September, 2009)
From the reviews: Provides a fresh perspective on crosscultural literature by placing a renewed importance on the role that bilingual experience plays in perception, memory, intelligence, learning and emotional formation. This book is mainly directed at therapists and education professionals. ! SLA researchers can benefit from an innovative perspective to the bilingual mind that interweaves psycholinguistic issues with questions of identity and culture. ! information about the languages spoken in the United States and an excellent overview of tests to assess less proficient and less acculturated bilinguals. (Nuria Sagarra, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Vol. 31 (3), September, 2009)
From the reviews: Provides a fresh perspective on crosscultural literature by placing a renewed importance on the role that bilingual experience plays in perception, memory, intelligence, learning and emotional formation. This book is mainly directed at therapists and education professionals. ... SLA researchers can benefit from an innovative perspective to the bilingual mind that interweaves psycholinguistic issues with questions of identity and culture. ... information about the languages spoken in the United States and an excellent overview of tests to assess less proficient and less acculturated bilinguals. (Nuria Sagarra, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Vol. 31 (3), September, 2009)
Author Information
Rafael Art. Javier, Ph.D., ABPP St. John's University, Supervisor and Clinical Professor of Psychology, Center for Psychological Services and Clinical Studies.
