Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family

Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family

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  • Author: Xiao-Lei Wang
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1847693695
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 190

Xiao-lei Wang received her doctoral degree from the University of Chicago in 1992. She is a full professor in the School of Education at Pace University in New York. Her research covers a wide range of topics such as cultural parenting styles, effects of nonverbal communication in teaching and learning, multilingual acquisition and development, and moral development. Her recent book Growing up with Three Languages: Birth to Eleven documented the simultaneous trilingual development of her own two children. Dr. Wang is a regular speaker on child development and parenting in local, national and international parents? associations and academic conferences.


Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family

Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family

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  • Author: Xiao-lei Wang
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1847694993
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 190

This book is a guide for parents who wish to raise children with more than one language and literacy. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, as well as the experiences of parents of multilingual children, this book walks parents through the multilingual reading and writing process from infancy to adolescence. It identifies essential literacy skills at each developmental stage and proposes effective strategies that facilitate multiliteracy, in particular, heritage-language literacy development in the home environment. This book can also be used as a reference for teachers who teach in community heritage language schools and in school heritage (or foreign) language programmes.


Bringing Up a Bilingual Child

Bringing Up a Bilingual Child

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  • Author: Rita Rosenback
  • Publisher: Filament Publishing Limited
  • ISBN: 9781910125243
  • Category : Family & Relationships
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 188

'Bringing up a Bilingual Child' is aimed at (existing or soon-to-be) parents in families where more than one language is spoken, as well as anyone in the extended circle of family and friend of such multilingual families, as well as for anyone coming into contact with them. The aim of the book is to help multilingual families to create a supportive environment for children in which they naturally grow up to speak more than one language. The intention is to give you an easy-to-read-and-use guide to multilingual parenting, providing motivation, ideas, advice and answers to any questions parents may have.


Growing up with Three Languages

Growing up with Three Languages

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  • Author: Xiao-lei Wang
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1847695671
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 234

This book is based on an eleven-year observation of two children who were simultaneously exposed to three languages from birth. It tells the story of two parents from different cultural, linguistic, and ethnic-racial backgrounds who joined to raise their two children with their heritage languages outside their native countries. It also tells the children’s story and the way they negotiated three cultures and languages and developed a trilingual identity. It sheds light on how parental support contributed to the children’s simultaneous acquisition of three languages in an environment where the main input of the two heritage languages came respectively from the father and from the mother. It addresses the challenges and the unique language developmental characteristics of the two children during their trilingual acquisition process.


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.


Family Language Learning

Family Language Learning

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  • Author: Christine Jernigan
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1783092807
  • Category : Education
  • 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.


Raising a Bilingual Child

Raising a Bilingual Child

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  • Author: Barbara Zurer Pearson
  • Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
  • ISBN: 9781400023349
  • Category : Bilingualism in children
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Teaches parents who want their children to learn a second language how to create a positive bilingual environment by integrating two languages into a child's daily routine.


Maximize Your Child's Bilingual Ability

Maximize Your Child's Bilingual Ability

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  • Author: Adam Beck
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9784908629013
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 310

"Adam Beck, founder of the popular blog Bilingual Monkeys and the lively forum The Bilingual Zoo, provides a roadmap to greater success and joy raising bilingual kids in this practical and comprehensive guide for parents and teachers. A longtime practitioner of bilingual development in children, Beck shares the best of his personal experience as an educator and parent, offering a wealth of actionable advice in his engaging and empowering book."--page 4 of cover.


Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family

Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family

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  • Author: Xiao-Lei Wang
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
  • ISBN: 9781847693709
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 181

Drawing on interdisciplinary research, as well as the experiences of parents of multilingual children, this book walks parents through the multilingual reading and writing process from infancy to adolescence. It identifies essential skills at each developmental stage and proposes effective strategies that facilitate multiliteracy, in particular, heritage-language literacy development in the home environment.


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.