Posts under ‘Articles’

“Raising Bilingual Children: Common Parental Concerns and Current Research” is an article written by Kendall King and Lyn Folge, Georgetown University and published in CALdigest and in the CAL (Center for Applied Linguistics) webpage.
This article shows the results of a study of 24 bilingual families with children between 0-5 years old in Washington D.C. , and also summarises [...]

“On Raising Bilingual and Multilingual Children” is an article written by Frances Kai-Hwa Wang and published in IMDiversity.com. This article  give advice about bilingual education and is oriented to us second-and-third-generation Asian Americans. It it a very interesting article. The autorin recomend: 
1. Just talk that talk: the kids  need to hear the language on a daily [...]

“Bilingual, Baby! Many parents want nannies fluent in another language to help tutor their tots” is the title of an article written by Vanessa Hua in November 2005 and published in SFGate.com.
This articles speak about the advantages of  using nannies: On one side, it helps immigrant families and their descendants to help pass on heritage. [...]

“Foreign Language Power. Can Babies and Toddlers Become Bilingual, or Even Trilingual?” is an article written by Kendeyl Johansen and published in the internet webpage IParenting.
This article speaks about the rising tendence to learn a second language in the earlier years and gives some examples about this tendency. The article reminds us that the younger the [...]

“Bílingual Parenting” is the title of an article written by Nadine Lichtenberger and published on the internet in TheGermanWay&More. This article gives a personal view about bilingualism from the perspective of an American mother raising her kids German-English in Austria.
 
“Bílingual Parenting” íst divided into two parts. In part one she speaks about the decision to raise her children [...]

The Washington Post has a feature on the various benefits of bilingualism on the brain. To quote the article: “Bilingual speakers are better able to deal with distractions than those who speak only a single language, and that may help offset age-related declines in mental performance”. Read the article here