Publications

Publication details [#41483]

Leseman, Paul P. M. and C. Van Tuijl. 2001. Home Support for Bilingual Development of Turkish 4–6-year-old Immigrant Children in the Netherlands: Efficacy of a Home-based Educational Programme. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 22 (4) : 309–324.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual education | immigrant | minority language

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study discusses the findings of an intensive two-year, home-based, mother-led educational programme for 4 to 6-year old Turkish minority children in The Netherlands. It is suggested that this might be a way to support balanced bilingual development and to prevent first language loss.