Becoming a Bilingual Family

Becoming a Bilingual Family
Author: Stephen Marks
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2013-01-30
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0292743637

Gives English-speaking parents the tools to start speaking Spanish with their kids in their earliest years, when children are most receptive to learning languages. It teaches the vocabulary and idioms for speaking to children in Spanish and offers practical, proven ways to create a language-learning environment at home.

Become a Bilingual Family

Become a Bilingual Family
Author: Daniela Perieda
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2016-08
Genre: Bilingualism in children
ISBN: 9780692753798

This book will show you why YOU are the best language teacher for your child, even if you only speak one language and HOW to start using the target language at home. The best part is that you will be able to implement this method to your daily routine with only 5 minutes per day! Inside you'll find: - Tips on strengthening your relationship with your child because relationships are the foundation for second language acquisition - The stages of your language learning journey Strategies to help your child during each stage Useful *Spanish phrases and vocabulary to use during daily interactions with audio. *Our method and strategies can apply to learning any language - An actionable roadmap for your language learning journey

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

'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.

Becoming a Bilingual Family

Becoming a Bilingual Family
Author: Stephen Marks
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2013-01-30
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0292743750

Would you like your children to grow up bilingual, even if you aren’t yet? Then speak to your kids in Spanish as you learn the language along with them. Becoming a Bilingual Family gives English-speaking parents the tools to start speaking Spanish with their kids in their earliest years, when children are most receptive to learning languages. It teaches the vocabulary and idioms for speaking to children in Spanish and offers practical, proven ways to create a language-learning environment at home. The first part of the book introduces parents to many resources—books, audio books, music, television, computer programs, childcare workers, school, and friends—that can help you establish a home environment conducive to the acquisition of Spanish. The second part is a Spanish phrasebook that takes you through all the typical activities that parents and children share, from getting up in the morning to going to bed at night. Few, if any, other Spanish study aids provide this much vocabulary and guidance for talking to small children about common daily activities. The authors also include a quick course in Spanish pronunciation and enough grammar to get a parent started. Spanish-language resources, kids’ names in Spanish, and an easy-to-use index and glossary complete the book. Take the Markses’ advice and start talking to your kids in Spanish, even if it’s not perfect. You’ll learn the language together and share the excitement of discovering the peoples and cultures that make up the Spanish-speaking world.

Becoming Bilingual

Becoming Bilingual
Author: Jean Lyon
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1996
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781853593178

Explores the processes of monolingual language development in pre-school children. Following an overview of child bilingualism, this book looks at the influence of the child's family environment and the factors which predict the language use of the child.

The Bilingual Family

The Bilingual Family
Author: Edith Esch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2003-03-27
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780521808620

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

Becoming Bilingual in School and Home in Tibetan Areas of China: Stories of Struggle

Becoming Bilingual in School and Home in Tibetan Areas of China: Stories of Struggle
Author: YiXi LaMuCuo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2019-07-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030146685

This book contributes significantly to our understanding of bilingualism and bilingual education as a sociocultural and political process by offering analyses of the stories of five Tibetan individual journeys of becoming bilingual in the Tibetan areas of China at four different points in time from 1950 to the present. The data presented comprises the narrative of their bilingual encounters, including their experiences of using language in their families, in village, and in school. Opportunities to develop bilingualism were intimately linked with historical and political events in the wider layers of experiences, which reveal the complexity of bilingualism. Moreover, their experiences of developing bilingualism are the stories of struggle to become bilingual. They struggle because they want to keep two languages in their lives. It illustrates their relationship with society. They are Tibetans. L1 is not the official language of their country, but it is the tie with their ethnicity. It addresses bilingualism linked with the formation of identity. The unique feature of this book is that it offers a deep understanding of bilingualism and bilingual education by examining the stories of five individuals’ learning experiences over a period of almost 60 years.

Becoming Bilingual Readers

Becoming Bilingual Readers
Author: Bobbie Kabuto
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2021-11-29
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000483460

Building on Bobbie Kabuto’s groundbreaking 2010 book Becoming Biliterate, this book explores how identity impacts the development of bilingual readers and how reading practices are mediated by family and community contexts. Highlighting bilingual readers from Spanish, Greek, Japanese, and English language backgrounds, Kabuto offers an in-depth, interdisciplinary analysis of these readers’ behaviors and identities through the original approach of Biographic Biliteracy Profiles. The Profiles serve as a culturally relevant assessment tool for developing meaningful narratives and can reveal how bilingual readers make sense of texts in the context of their home and school environments. An ideal approach for unpacking the complexity of bilingual reading behaviors and how they change across time, the Profiles allow readers to explore what a bilingual reader’s identity means to becoming biliterate; the roles of code-switching and translanguaging; the influences of readers’ families and communities; and how they all interact and shape readers’ identities, behaviors, and meaning-making. Offering practical applications on observing and documenting bilingual readers, this book is an invaluable resource for scholars and students in courses on bilingualism, L2/ESL reading, and multilingualism.

Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education

Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
Author: Colin Baker
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Total Pages: 776
Release: 1998
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781853593628

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.