Barron-Hauwaert Language Strategies for Bilingual Families

The One-Parent-One-Language Approach
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-85359-716-9
Verlag: Multilingual Matters
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 7, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 225 mm

Reihe: Parents' and Teachers' Guides

Lots of new parents these days have the opportunity to bring up their child with two or more languages because of increasing job mobility and the global community. The benefits of bilingualism and biculturalism such as higher cognitive skills, an awareness of language and sensitivity to other cultures, are being increasingly recognised. However many parents don’t know how to start, what methods to use or where to seek help when facing problems.

Now Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert, a mother of three trilingual children, teacher and linguist who has lived and worked all over the world, has written a book which provides an inspiring approach to passing on two or more languages to your children. In Language Strategies for Bilingual Families she considers several methods of bilingualism and focuses on the one-person one-language approach, in which each parent speaks his or her native language and is responsible for passing on his or her culture.

Suzanne questioned over a hundred bilingual families about their experiences and she interviewed thirty families in depth. The results of her study are linked to current academic research, but the book is both readable and relevant to non-academics and provides fascinating insights into being a multilingual family. It will prove an exciting and stimulating read for potential and current mixed-language families.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barron-Hauwaert, Suzanne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1 The One-Parent-One-Language Approach. What is it?

2 The First Three Years and Establishing the One-Parent-One-Language Approach

3 Starting School and Becoming Bicultural – One-Culture-One-Person?

4 Interaction Between Family Members and the One-Person-One-Language Approach

5 One-Parent-One-Language Families – Expectations and the Reality

6 Living With Three or More Languages. One-Parent-Two-Languages (or More)

7 Seven Strategies for Language Use Within the Family

8 The One-Parent-One-Language Approach in the Twenty-First Century

Appendixes

Sources of Information for Bilingual Families

Glossary

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Barron-Hauwaert, Suzanne
Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert independently researches bilingual families and their language patterns. She is the author of Language Strategies for Bilingual Families: the one-parent-one-language approach (2004, Multilingual Matters). Suzanne is British, married to a Frenchman, and lives in France with their three bilingual children aged 13, 11 and 7. Suzanne advises families through Bilingual Support Groups in France and writes on education and bringing up children with two languages.

Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert is on the Editorial Board of the Bilingual Family Newsletter. Married to a Frenchman with three young children she has direct experience of bringing up children with two or three languages. They have lived as an expatriate family in Hungary, Egypt and Switzerland. Suzanne trained as a teacher of English as a second language and taught adults and children in Japan and Poland. In 1999 she completed a Master's dissertation on trilingual families and continues to research bilingual and trilingual families.