Language Development and Multilingualism in Early Childhood

This course explores the language acquisition and literacy development of multilingual children from birth to age eight. Psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic views of language are used to examine social, cultural, and cognitive aspects of language acquisition and learning. Topics include multilingual language development, multiliteracy, standard and non-standard languages, language instruction in schools, bilingual education, and other topics specific to the language learning of multilingual children. Course topics explore how early childhood educators can support students from various languagebackgrounds through instructional approaches that meet the needs of multilingual learners.This course has an M&T Fee. For more info visit: http://qc.cuny.edu/?id=JU9F