Bilingual Families

Bilingual Families

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  • Author: Eowyn Crisfield
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
  • ISBN: 9781788929370
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 120

Does your family or community speak more than one language? Do you wonder how to help your children successfully learn or keep those languages? Do you want your children to have the gift of bilingualism and aren't sure where to start - or how to keep going? Every multilingual family has unique language needs. Bilingual Families is a guide for you and your family. It combines academic research with practical advice to cover the essential elements in successful bilingual and multilingual development. Use this book to: Learn about language goals - and how to set them Create a 'living' family language plan that develops and grows with your family Learn how to talk about multilingualism with your children and other key people in your children's life, like teachers and relatives Recognise when you might need further support An indispensable guide for your family's language journey.


Language Strategies for Bilingual Families

Language Strategies for Bilingual Families

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  • Author: Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1847695752
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 246

Lots of new parents these days have the opportunity to bring up their child with two or more languages because of increasing job mobility and the global community. The benefits of bilingualism and biculturalism such as higher cognitive skills, an awareness of language and sensitivity to other cultures, are being increasingly recognised. However many parents don’t know how to start, what methods to use or where to seek help when facing problems. Now Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert, a mother of three trilingual children, teacher and linguist who has lived and worked all over the world, has written a book which provides an inspiring approach to passing on two or more languages to your children. In Language Strategies for Bilingual Families she considers several methods of bilingualism and focuses on the one-person one-language approach, in which each parent speaks his or her native language and is responsible for passing on his or her culture. Suzanne questioned over a hundred bilingual families about their experiences and she interviewed thirty families in depth. The results of her study are linked to current academic research, but the book is both readable and relevant to non-academics and provides fascinating insights into being a multilingual family. It will prove an exciting and stimulating read for potential and current mixed-language families.


Bilingual Siblings

Bilingual Siblings

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  • Author: Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1847694926
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 225

How do bilingual brothers and sisters talk to each other? Sibling language use is an uncharted area in studies of bilingualism. From a perspective of independent researcher and parent of three bilingual children Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert discusses the issues of a growing bilingual or multilingual family. What happens when there are two or more children at different stages of language development? Do all the siblings speak the same languages? Which language(s) do the siblings prefer to speak together? Could one child refuse to speak one language while another child is fluently bilingual? How do the factors of birth order, personality or family size interact in language production? With data from over 100 international families this book investigates the reality of family life with two or more children and languages.


Becoming Bilingual

Becoming Bilingual

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  • Author: Jean Lyon
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 9781853593178
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 286

Explores the processes of monolingual language development in pre-school children. Following an overview of child bilingualism, this book looks at the influence of the child's family environment and the factors which predict the language use of the child.


Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education

Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education

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  • Author: Colin Baker
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 9781853593628
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 776

This encyclopedia is divided into three sections: individual bilingualism; bilingualism in society and bilingual education. It includes many pictures, graphs, maps and diagrams. The book concludes with a comprehensive bibliography on bilingualism.


Bilingual Families

Bilingual Families

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  • Author: Eowyn Crisfield
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1788929365
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 200

Does your family or community speak more than one language? Do you wonder how to help your children successfully learn or keep those languages? Do you want your children to have the gift of bilingualism and aren’t sure where to start – or how to keep going? Every multilingual family has unique language needs. Bilingual Families is a guide for you and your family. It combines academic research with practical advice to cover the essential elements in successful bilingual and multilingual development. Use this book to: Learn about language goals – and how to set them Create a 'living' family language plan that develops and grows with your family Learn how to talk about multilingualism with your children and other key people in your children's life, like teachers and relatives Recognise when you might need further support An indispensable guide for your family’s language journey.


The Bilingual Family

The Bilingual Family

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  • Author: Edith Esch
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9780521808620
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 216

An up-to-date, accessible guide for parents of bilingual children.


Input and Experience in Bilingual Development

Input and Experience in Bilingual Development

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  • Author: Theres Grüter
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
  • ISBN: 9027269459
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 204

Children acquiring two languages, either simultaneously or sequentially, have more variation in their linguistic input than their monolingual peers. Understanding the nature and consequences of this variability has been the focus of much recent research on childhood bilingualism. This volume constitutes the first collection of research solely dedicated to the topic of input in childhood bilingualism. Chapters represent a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of childhood bilingualism, covering a variety of language combinations and sociocultural contexts in Europe, Israel, North and South America. As a reflection of the field’s current understanding of the intricate relationship between experience and development in children growing up with two or more languages, this volume will be of interest to scholars and practitioners working with bi- and multilingual learners in various sociolinguistic and educational contexts.


Family Language Policy

Family Language Policy

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  • Author: Sonia Wilson
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 303052437X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 209

This book explores the question of family language policy in multilingual households. Presenting six case studies which focus on the experiences of parents and children in French-English bilingual contexts, the author draws conclusions about the impact of parental language management on the family as a whole which can be applied to transnational families from other linguistic backgrounds. While many parental guides on bilingual childrearing have been published in recent years, little attention has been paid to the possible impact of such language strategies on the experiences and interrelationships of bilingual family members. This book is unique in focusing in depth on the psychology and experiences of the child, and it will be of interest to readers in fields as diverse as sociolinguistics, language policy and planning, sociology of youth and family, and child psychology.


Bilingual Couples Talk

Bilingual Couples Talk

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  • Author: Ingrid Piller
  • Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
  • ISBN: 9027296863
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 315

This sociolinguistic study of the linguistic practices of bilingual couples describes the conditions, processes and results of private language contact. It is based on a unique corpus of more than 20 hours of private conversations between partners in bilingual marriages. Adding to its breadth of coverage, these private conversations are supplemented with larger public discourses about international couplehood. The volume thus offers a corpus-driven investigation of the ways in which ideologies of gender, nationality and immigration mediate linguistic performances in private cross-cultural communication. The author embraces social-constructionist, feminist and postmodern approaches to second language learning, multilingualism and cross-cultural communication. In contrast to other titles in the field which have focused almost exclusively on the socialization of bilingual children, this book explores what it means to one's sense of self to become socialized into a second language and culture as a late bilingual.