Books by Jurgen M. (Universitat Hamburg) Meisel

An increasing number of families live in environments requiring a bilingual education for their children. This book addresses the major issues of concern for parents about child bilingualism, separating the fact from the fiction.

This useful textbook serves as a guide to different types of language acquisition: monolingual and bilingual first language development and child and adult second language acquisition. The essential guide to studying first and second language acquisition, it will be used on courses in linguistics, modern languages and developmental psychology.