Language Strategies for Bilingual Families

Language Strategies for Bilingual Families
Author: Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781853597145

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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.

The Bilingual Family

The Bilingual Family
Author: Edith Harding
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-03-27
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0521808626

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

Language Strategies for Trilingual Families

Language Strategies for Trilingual Families
Author: Andreas Braun
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2014-01-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1783091150

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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.

Bilingual Siblings

Bilingual Siblings
Author: Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2011-01-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1847694926

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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.

Bilingual Families

Bilingual Families
Author: Eowyn Crisfield
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2021-01-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1788929357

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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.

A Parents' and Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism

A Parents' and Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism
Author: Colin Baker
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2014-04-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1783091606

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In this accessible guide to bilingualism in the family and the classroom, Colin Baker delivers a realistic picture of the joys and difficulties of raising bilingual children. This revised edition includes more information on bilingualism in the digital age, and incorporates the latest research in areas such as neonatal language experience, multilingualism and language mixing.

Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English

Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2017-08-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0309455405

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Educating dual language learners (DLLs) and English learners (ELs) effectively is a national challenge with consequences both for individuals and for American society. Despite their linguistic, cognitive, and social potential, many ELsâ€"who account for more than 9 percent of enrollment in grades K-12 in U.S. schoolsâ€"are struggling to meet the requirements for academic success, and their prospects for success in postsecondary education and in the workforce are jeopardized as a result. Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English: Promising Futures examines how evidence based on research relevant to the development of DLLs/ELs from birth to age 21 can inform education and health policies and related practices that can result in better educational outcomes. This report makes recommendations for policy, practice, and research and data collection focused on addressing the challenges in caring for and educating DLLs/ELs from birth to grade 12.

Raising Multilingual Children

Raising Multilingual Children
Author: Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0897897501

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Evaluates the most recent research in linguistics, neurology, education, and psychology and reinterprets the findings in an easy-to-follow format. Case studies illustrate the many ways families combine ten key factors in order to successfully raise multilingual children. The book encourages parents and teachers to reflect on their personal situations and helps them to foster multilingual skills in the children around them.

Family Language Learning

Family Language Learning
Author: Christine Jernigan
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2015
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1783092807

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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.

Bringing Up a Bilingual Child

Bringing Up a Bilingual Child
Author: Rita Rosenback
Publisher: Filament Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2014-06-10
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9781910125243

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'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.