Language Strategies for Bilingual Families

Language Strategies for Bilingual Families

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  • Author: Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 9781853597145
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 246

This book looks at how families can support and increase bilingualism through planned strategies. One such strategy is the one person-one language approach, where each parent speaks his or her language. Over a hundred families from around the world were questioned and thirty families were interviewed in-depth about how they pass on their language in bilingual or trilingual families.


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.


Language Strategies for Trilingual Families

Language Strategies for Trilingual Families

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  • Author: Andreas Braun
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1783091177
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 209

This book aims to enable parents in trilingual families to consider possible language strategies on the basis of analysing their individual circumstances. It includes a tool for diagnostic self-analysis that will help each reader to identify their situation and learn how parents in similar situations have approached the task of supporting their children’s use of languages. Based on a unique survey of parents in trilingual families in two European countries, the book highlights the challenges that trilingual families face when living in mainly monolingual societies. It takes into account the recent emergence of a 'New Trilingualism' among educated parents who find themselves in trilingual families because of global trends in migration and the recent expansion of the EU.


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.


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.


The 5 Key Strategies of Successful Bilingual Families

The 5 Key Strategies of Successful Bilingual Families

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  • Author: Simon Brampton
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9788418447662
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 276

With more and more mixed nationality international families around the world, there is a growing need for advice for families that want to raise their child speaking two or more languages. This book provides the framework that you have been waiting for; a step-by-step guide that gives practical and easy to follow strategies for raising your child in your native language. The Five Key Strategies are set out in a logical order for you to work through one by one. Families that follow them will have the highest possible chance of successfully bringing up bilingual children. It can seem like a massive challenge, but whatever family situation you are in, and whatever language you want to pass on, this practical guidebook will help get you there. And with a website and a blog that charts the author's successful experience with his son in Spain, you can see for yourself how it is done. Have fun. The bilingual journey has begun! Simon Brampton is the owner of two language schools in Barcelona. With a first-class honour's degree and postgraduate in Psychology, he has been working as a language teacher, trainer, and translator for over thirty years. This book is the fruit of his own experience of raising a trilingual child, with hundreds of interviews, conversations, and observations as well as comments and feedback through his dedicated blog.


Being Bilingual

Being Bilingual

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  • Author: Safder Alladina
  • Publisher: Trentham Books
  • ISBN: 1858560519
  • Category : Bilingualism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 76

An attempt to present issues of bilingualism to the bilingual families themselves, so that although psycho- and socio- linguistically sound, this book is straightforward and populist in style. The text argues for families to maintain their mother tongues and suggests strategies for doing so at home and with schools.


Family Language Learning

Family Language Learning

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  • Author: Christine Jernigan
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1783092823
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 391

Family Language Learning is a practical guide designed to support, advise and encourage any parents who are hoping to raise their children bilingually. It is unique in that it focuses on parents who are not native speakers of a foreign language. It gives parents the tools they need to cultivate and nurture their own language skills while giving their children an opportunity to learn another language. The book combines cutting-edge research on language exposure with honest and often humorous stories from personal interviews with families speaking a foreign language at home. By dispelling long-held myths about how language is learned, it provides hope to parents who want to give their children bilingual childhoods, but feel they don’t know where to start with learning a foreign language.


Bilingual Development in Childhood

Bilingual Development in Childhood

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  • Author: Annick De Houwer
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108853838
  • Category : Psychology
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 155

In the first decade of life, children become bilingual in different language learning environments. Many children start learning two languages from birth (Bilingual First Language Acquisition). In early childhood hitherto monolingual children start hearing a second language through daycare or preschool (Early Second Language Acquisition). Yet other hitherto monolingual children in middle childhood may acquire a second language only after entering school (Second Language Acquisition). This Element explains how these different language learning settings dynamically affect bilingual children's language learning trajectories. All children eventually learn to speak the societal language, but they often do not learn to fluently speak their non-societal language and may even stop speaking it. Children's and families' harmonious bilingualism is threatened if bilingual children do not develop high proficiency in both languages. Educational institutions and parental conversational practices play a pivotal role in supporting harmonious bilingual development.