Current Issues in Bilingualism: Cognitive and Socio-linguistic Perspectives

Introduction by Mark Leikin, Mila Schwartz, and Yishai Tobin .- Part I. Language and Literacy in Multilingual Society. Chapter 1. Relevance of the Linguistic Coding Difference Hypothesis to English as an Additional Language of Literacy in Israel by Janina Kahn-Horwitz, Richard L. Sparks, and Zahava Goldstein . Chapter 2. Literacy Reflexes of Arabic Diglossia by Elinor Haddad . Chapter 3. Multilingualism Among Israeli Arabs, and the Neuropsychology of Reading in Different Languages by Zohar Eviatar and Raphiq Ibrahim .- Part II. Academic Achievement of Children Coming from Immigrant Families. Chapter 4. Cognitive, Language, and Literacy Development in Socio-Culturally Vulnerable School Children: The Case of Ethiopian Israeli Children by Esther Geva and Michal Shany . Chapter 5. Second Generation Immigrants: A Socio-linguistic Approach of Linguistic Development Within Framework of Family Language Policy by Mila Schwartz . Chapter 6. Understanding Language Achievement of Immigrants in Schools: The Role of Multiple Academic Languages by Tamar Levin and Elana Shohamy .- Part III. Multilingual Acquisition and Processing. Chapter 7. Adjective Inflection in Hebrew: A Psycholinguistic Study in Speakers of Russian, English and Arabic Compared with Native Hebrew Speakers by Iris Alfi-Shabtay and Dorit Ravid . Chapter 8. Verb Inflections Indicators of Bilingual SLI: Qualitative vs. Quantitative Measurements by Sharon Armon-Lotem, Galit Adam, Anat Blass, Jonathan Fine, Efrat Harel, Elinor Saiegh-Haddad, and Joel Walters. Chapter 9. Procedural and Declarative Memory in the Acquisition of Morphological Knowledge: A Model for Second Language Acquisition in Adults by Sara Ferman and Avi Karni . Chapter 10. Reading L1 and L2: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence: A Comparison between Regular and Dyslexic Readers by Zvia Breznitz and Liat Fabian . Chapter 11. Identification of Grammatical Functions in Two Languages by Mark Leikin and Elina Ritvas