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Bilingual By Choice
Author | : Virginie Raguenaud |
Publsiher | : Nicholas Brealey |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2010-12-15 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781857884449 |
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Includes 100 creative activities and strategies for the home and community! 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.
Raising Bilingual Children
Author | : Maritere Rodriguez Bellas |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2014-09-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781476753256 |
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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.
A Parents and Teachers Guide to Bilingualism
Author | : Colin Baker |
Publsiher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2014-04-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781783091621 |
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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. The Q&A format of this book makes it the natural choice for the busy parent or teacher who needs an easy reference guide to the most frequently asked questions. 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, language mixing and the effect that siblings have on family language choice.
Introduction to Bilingualism
Author | : Charlotte Hoffmann |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2014-09-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781317887652 |
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An Introduction to Bilingualism provides a comprehensive review of the most important aspects of individual and societal bilingualism, examining both theoretcial and practical issues. At the level of the individual, it addresses such questios as: What is involved in the study of bilingual children? What are the patterns of bilingual language acquisition? In which ways do the language competence and the speech of bilinguals differ from those of monolinguals? Topics that sometimes arouse controversy are explored - such as the question of whether there is a relationship between bilingualsim and a child's cognitive, psychological and social development. The book is also concerned with multilingualism, that is, bilingualsim as a societal phenomenon. It focuses on such issues as language choice in bilingual and multilingual communities, national identity and the education of bilinguals. The inclusion of several case studies of European linguistic minorities serves to exemplify the topics dealt with at the theoretical level and to illustrate the linguistic complexities found in contemporary Europe.
Language Identity and Choice
Author | : Kami J. Anderson |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 114 |
Release | : 2015-05-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780739193624 |
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Language, Identity and Choice: Raising Bilingual Children in a Global Society provides scholarly insight into how foreign language acquisition influences an individual’s understanding of identity within the African American family. Rooted in sociolinguistic, communication, and bilingual theoretical perspectives, Kami J. Anderson describes how foreign language acquisition, development, and use shape how Africans and African Americans describe and proscribe their identity and, in turn, the identity of the family. Language, Identiy, and Choice looks specifically at how family language choices, in particular choosing to be bilingual, affect family communication and perception of identity from people outside of the family. Anderson combines both extensive research and her personal experience of being bilingual to challenge the existing notions of what it means to be Black when personal experiences with race and ethnicity extend beyond the boundaries of the native country or culture.
Be Bilingual Practical Ideas for Multilingual Families
Author | : Annika Bourgogne |
Publsiher | : Annika Bourgogne |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2013-12-09 |
Genre | : Bilingualism in children |
ISBN | : 9526803701 |
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Written in a lively, engaging style, with lots of activities and resources for parents and teachers, "Bilingual By Choice" tells how to raise children bilingually and keep them that way into adulthood.
The Bilingualism Reader
Author | : Li Wei,Wei Li |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0415213355 |
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This is a comprehensive collection of key classic articles in the study of language contact. Designed as a structured student source-book, it covers: definitions and typology of bilingualism language choice and bilingual interaction grammar of codeswitching and bilingual acquisition the bilingual brain and bilingual production and perception methodological issues in the study of bilingualism. Invaluable editorial material guides the reader through the different sections. Critical discussion of research methods, graded study questions and activities, a comprehensive glossary, and an up-to-date resource list make The Bilingualism Reader an essential introductory text for students. Contributors: Peter Auer, Michael Clyne, Kees de Bot, Charles Ferguson, Joshua Fishman, Fred Genesee, David Green, François Grosjean, John Gumperz, Monica Heller, Li Wei, William Mackey, Jurgen Meisel, Lesley Milroy, Carol Myers-Scotton, Loraine K. Obler, Michel Paradis, Shana Poplack.
Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
Author | : Colin Baker,Sylvia Prys Jones |
Publsiher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 776 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1853593621 |
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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.