Table of contents for The multilingual mind : issues discussed by, for, and about people living with many languages / edited by Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa.

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   Introduction                                                xvii

 1. Myths About Multilingualism                                  1
     Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa

I. SCHOOLING AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES                               13

 2. Teaching Languages Using the Multiple Intelligences and the Senses  15
    Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa

 3. The Role of the Sense of Smell in Language Learning           21
     Sara Ackerman Aoyama

 4. Multiliteracy Skills                                          31
     Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa

 5. Two-Way Immersion Programs in the United States               47
    Jennifer Frengel

II. MATH, MUSIC, AND MULTILINGUALS                               63

 6. The Relationship Between Musical Ability and Foreign Languages:
     Communication via Sounds and via Words                       65
     Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa

 7. Language, Math, and Thought: Vygotsky's Concept of Inner
     Speech                                                       81
     Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa




 8. Multilingual Mathematics                                        91
     Marie Petraitis

III. DEGREES OF MULTILINGUALISM                                    99

 9. In the Beginning Was the Word: Language and the Womb      101
     Andrea Bader-Rusch

10. First Choice Option: From Birth                               109
    Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa

11. Bilingualism from Birth                                       115
    Manuela Gonzalez-Bueno

12. Trilingualism: A Study of Children Growing Up with Three
    Languages                                                     129
    Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert

13. What, You Speak Only One Language!? A Trilingual Family's
    Story                                                         151
    Nicola Kiipelikiling

IV. SOCIETY AND LANGUAGES                                         163

14. Third Culture Kids: A Special Case for Foreign Language Learning  165
    Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa

15. The Yellow Streetcar: Shaping a Polyphonic Identity      171
    Cristina Allemann-Ghionda

16. Linguistic Hegemony: Is There a Superior Language?       189
    Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa

17. Foreign Adoption and Bilingualism                             197
    Nicola Kiipelikilinq

18. Bringing Up Bilingual Children in Scarce Language Environments:
    How the Internet Can Help                                     207
    Maria Johnson

19. Multilingualism and Cosmopolitanism                           213
    Konrad Gunesch

V. INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES                                        233

20. A Voice within a Voice: Federman Translating/Translating
    Federman                                                      235
    Raymond Federman



21. Challenges to Normal Bilingualism: Down's Syndrome, Deafness,
    and Dyslexia                                                 243
    Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
    Conclusion                                                   255
    Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
    Bibliography                                                 257
    Subject Index                                                277
    Name Index                                                   283
    About the Editor and Contributors                            293