A Parents' and Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism

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Multilingual Matters, Sep 26, 2007 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 240 pages

Written in a very reader-friendly style, the book is a practical introduction for parents and teachers to bilingualism. Straightforward and realistic answers are given to a comprehensive set of frequently asked questions about bilingualism and bilingual education. Areas covered include family, language, culture, identity, reading , writing, schooling and issues.

In the third edition, there is new or more detailed consideration of:

• Moving between countries, cultural adaptation

• Identity issues

• One parent - one language (OPOL) families

• Pre schools / kindergartens / nursery schools

• Helping with homework

• Dyslexia

• Language scaffolding

• Multilingualism and trilingualism; trilingual families

• Adoption

• WWW links, articles and books for further reading

 

Contents

Family Questions
1
A3 Is the mother more important than the father in the childs language
7
A7 What is the one personone language OPOL approach? Is
13
A13 How important is it that the childs two languages are practiced
19
A14 What kind of community support is valuable for bilingualism? 20
20
Language Development Questions
28
B6 Will my child become equally fluent in two languages?
34
B10 Are there benefits if my child has a less welldeveloped second
40
Reading and Writing Questions
100
D7 Which approach to teaching reading works best? The look
109
D13 My child has been diagnosed as dyslexic Should we develop
115
E4 What should I look out for in choosing a school for
121
E5 Should my child be taught bilingually in the primary school
123
E15 What are Dual Language Peace schools?
138
E22 What language strategies are used in immersion classrooms?
152
E29 Are there positive effects of learning through the medium of
163

B13 Should my child keep the two languages separate in different
46
B17 Do bilinguals learn a third language easier than monolinguals learn
53
B22 When will my bilingual child be able to interpret and translate
59
B23 How much will experience of majority language mass media
60
C4 My teenage child is speaking the majority language more and more
73
C14 My child seems to have learning difficulties Is this due
86
C19 People make fun of our speaking a minority language How should
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E38 Should Science and Mathematics be taught in an international
177
F6 Language is an important part of our religion Should my child
190
F9 Books on child care and child development warn me against
195
Glossary
202
Index
226
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Colin Baker
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Colin Baker
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About the author (2007)

Colin Baker is Professor of Education at the University of Wales, Bangor and a Fellow of the British Psychological Society. He has three bilingual children and frequently gives talks to parents and teachers on bilingualism. He is the author of 14 books and over 50 articles on bilingualism and bilingual education, with specific interests in bilingual development in young children and bilingual education. His books include ‘Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (4th edition 2006) which has been translated into Japanese, Spanish, Latvian, Greek and Mandarin. He is the Editor of the International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education.

Bibliographic information

TitleA Parents' and Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism
Volume 9 of Parents' and Teachers' Guides
AuthorColin Baker
Edition3, revised
PublisherMultilingual Matters, 2007
ISBN184769571X, 9781847695710
Length240 pages
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Education / Multicultural Education
Education / Special Education / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
  
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