The Multilingual Mind: Issues Discussed By, For, and About People Living With Many Languages

Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa | 30 Mar 2003, Praeger | 288 pages Where to buy: Bol.com Amazon.com       Tokuhama-Espinosa combines solid research, humor, and real-life examples into 21 informative and entertaining essays about people who experience the world with multiple languages. This book tackles common misconceptions about polyglots ( too many languages can cause brain overload, some languages are easier to learn than others, an adult cannot learn a foreign language as fast as a child, etc.). Other topics include: Teaching languages using the multiple intelligences; Language’s relationship to mental tasks such as music and math; Languages from the womb and bilingualism from birth; The growth of the trilingual family; Challenges to normal foreign language learning, such as dyslexia, Downs Syndrome, and deafness. (Bol.com)