Raising bilingual children: when school speaks a different language

Raising bilingual children: when school speaks a different language

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  • Author: Clarissa Gosling
  • Publisher: Prinsenhof Publications
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 71

Does your child speak a different language at school and home? In this book Clarissa draws on her experience of sending her British children to a Dutch school to help you support your child through their education abroad. It covers: - Systems for separating when and where you use multiple languages; - Things to look for in different school systems; - How to work with your school to best support your child; - Possible issues specific to children of different ages, from babies to teenagers. This book is suitable for families with children of all ages, whether they have just moved to a foreign language school or have been there for some time.


Raising Bilingual Children

Raising Bilingual Children

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  • Author: Maritere Rodriguez Bellas
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 1476753253
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 208

For most immigrant parents in America today, raising bilingual children is not a choice or a decision, but rather a way of life. Yet teaching children their parents’ native language often comes second to ensuring they are proficient in English so they can thrive in school and later reach leadership positions in the workplace. In addition, the task of teaching two (or more) languages can be overwhelming, leaving many of us wondering where to start. Raising Bilingual Children is here to help with easy, practical steps for children of every age and stage in life. Author and parenting expert Mari Bellas provides answers to questions such as: What do I do when my five-year-old doesn’t want to speak Spanish at home? My husband doesn’t speak Korean, so how do we find common ground to raise our kids with two languages? My child is two years old and not speaking in either of the two languages we speak at home—should I be concerned? Whether your native language is Spanish, Filipino, Korean, Chinese, or French, it is natural to want our children to communicate in the language we were born with. Raising Bilingual Children is the ultimate guidebook for busy parents looking for advice and direction about the everyday challenges and joys of raising a bilingual child.


Family Language Learning

Family Language Learning

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  • Author: Christine Jernigan
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1783092807
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 214

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 by Choice

Bilingual by Choice

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  • Author: Virginie Raguenaud
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781473645479
  • Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :

More and more people-hundreds of millions around the world-are living in bilingual homes. In the U.S. alone, more than 54 million people over the age of 5 speak a language other than English at home. Yet once children enter school, the pull toward one language becomes stronger and maintaining the bilingual advantage requires a serious family commitment-a bilingual choice. The good news is it's worth it. Research shows that bilingual children are known to have more social, cultural and economic opportunities as they grow to adulthood and that learning a second language from birth can even result in protection against Alzheimer's later in life. Bilingual By Choice provides families with specific activities, games and insights that will show them how to not only teach their kids more than one language but also to help their kids retain and develop those language skills. For parents, educators, immigrants and expatriates, Bilingual by Choice deals directly with the obstacles to sustaining a second language, including unsupportive relatives, issues at school, frequent relocations and discrimination, countering each one with the author's firsthand experience with both sides of the growing-up-bilingual journey, as a child and as a parent. Commit to the choice, and help your children become bilingual-for life.


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.


Children's Multilingual Development and Education

Children's Multilingual Development and Education

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  • Author: Alison L. Bailey
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1107042445
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 343

A study of the beliefs and practices of parents and educators raising future generations of multilingual children.


Growing Up with Two Languages

Growing Up with Two Languages

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  • Author: Una Cunningham
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1136708839
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 207

The lives of many families involve contact with more than one language and culture on a daily basis. Growing Up with Two Languages is aimed at the many parents and professionals who feel uncertain about the best way to go about helping children gain maximum benefit from the multilingual situation. This best-selling guide is illustrated by glimpses of life from interviews with fifty families from all around the world. The trials and rewards of life with two languages and cultures are discussed in detail, and followed by practical advice on how to support the child’s linguistic development. Features of this third edition include: a dedicated website with new and updated Internet resources a new chapter giving the perspective of adults who have themselves grown up with more than one language a new chapter presenting research into bilingual language acquisition with information about further reading new and updated first-hand advice and examples throughout. Una Cunningham is an Associate Professor in Modern Languages at Stockholm University, Sweden. She and her husband, Staffan Andersson, have raised their four children to speak English and Swedish in Sweden.


Raising Multilingual Children

Raising Multilingual Children

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  • Author: Julia Festman
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1783097590
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 112

Have you ever been told that raising your child to speak multiple languages will harm their development? Are teachers or other professionals suspicious of your efforts? Are you sometimes unsure if you are helping your child’s language development, or are you uncertain where to start? It is increasingly recognised among researchers that, far from harming a child’s development, being exposed to multiple languages from birth or early childhood can result in linguistic, creative and social advantages. The authors, all multilinguals themselves, parents of multilingual children, and researchers on language and multilingualism, aim to provide advice and inspiration for multilingual families across the world. The latest research on multilingualism and the authors’ own experiences are used to provide a friendly, accessible guide to raising and nurturing happy multilingual children.


7 Steps to Raising a Bilingual Child

7 Steps to Raising a Bilingual Child

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  • Author: Naomi Steiner
  • Publisher: AMACOM
  • ISBN: 0814401767
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 225

Find out why early childhood is the best time to teach your child a second language and learn how to do it with this step-by-step guide. The best time to learn a second language is as a child. During childhood, the brain is more receptive to language learning than at any other time in life. Aware that a second language can enrich their child's understanding of other cultures and bring future job opportunities in a world drawn ever closer by globalization, many parents today are motivated to raise their children bilingual. 7 Steps to Raising a Bilingual Child helps parents in both monolingual and multilingual families determine and achieve their bilingual goals for their child, whether those goals are understanding others, the ability to speak a second language, reading and/or writing in two languages, or some combination of all of these. The authors will: explain how the brain learns more than one language, explode common myths, address frequently asked questions, and reveal an array of resources available to families. Packed with insightful anecdotes and powerful strategies, 7 Steps to Raising a Bilingual Child is a one-of-a-kind guidebook for those seeking to provide their children with a uniquely valuable experience.


Growing Up with Two Languages

Growing Up with Two Languages

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  • Author: Una Cunningham
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1000030679
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 218

Growing Up with Two Languages provides a highly accessible account of the stages of language development, describes and evaluates the various systems and strategies that can be adopted and looks at the problems that can occur when a child is exposed to two languages and cultures. Combining research-informed advice and the experience of parents raising children as speakers of a wide range of languages in every populated continent in the world, this book and its associated web material will answer questions, offer tried and tested strategies to keep children speaking a minority language, and provide material to enlist the support of the extended family, teachers and others. The perspective of adults who were themselves raised speaking more than one language is included. New to this edition is a chapter focusing on families raising children as speakers of indigenous and threatened languages as well as chapters for teachers and health professionals who want to know more about multilingual child language development and how they can support parents to continue speaking their language with their children. With new and updated first-hand advice, Internet resources and examples throughout, this book also includes a chapter that introduces important recent research into multilingual children and further reading guides for those who want to know more. This book is for parents who are raising or plan to raise children as speakers of more than one language, and for the teachers and healthcare workers who meet and can support them.