Bilingual Families

A Practical Language Planning Guide
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-78892-934-9
Verlag: Channel View Publications

Buch, Englisch, 109 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Provides clear and practical advice for parents of multilingual children.

Does your family or community speak more than one language? Do you wonder how to help your children successfully learn or keep those languages? Do you want your children to have the gift of bilingualism and aren’t sure where to start – or how to keep going?

Every multilingual family has unique language needs. Bilingual Families is a guide for you and your family. It combines academic research with practical advice to cover the essential elements in successful bilingual and multilingual development. Use this book to:

- Learn about language goals – and how to set them

- Create a 'living' family language plan that develops and grows with your family

- Learn how to talk about multilingualism with your children and other key people in your children's life, like teachers and relatives

- Recognise when you might need further support

An indispensable guide for your family’s language journey.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crisfield, Eowyn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogik: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements and Thanks

Introduction: About the Book

The Structure of the Book

Chapter 1: Demystifying Bilingualism

The Case for Bilingualism

Moving from Fiction to Fact

Chapter 2: Family Language Planning

Set Your Goals

Creating a Family Language Plan

Chapter 3: Supporting your Family Language Plan

Conversations with Your Children

Conversations with Other People

Know When to Get Help

Concluding Remarks

Glossary of Terms

Appendix A: Sample Family Language Plan

Appendix B: School Planner

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Crisfield, Eowyn
Eowyn Crisfield is founder and principal of Crisfield Educational Consulting and Senior Lecturer in TESOL at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She has delivered her family language planning programme and insights through seminars, family language planning consultations, school consultations and her onraisingbilingualchildren blog for over 15 years. Eowyn and her mostly-monolingual partner are raising three multilingual children.with varying degrees of success!

Eowyn Crisfield is founder and principal of Crisfield Educational Consulting and Senior Lecturer in TESOL at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She has delivered her family language planning programme and insights through seminars, family language planning consultations, school consultations and her blog, On Raising Bilingual Children, for over 15 years. Eowyn and her mostly-monolingual partner are raising three multilingual children.with varying degrees of success!