- Bilingual
Parenting in a Foreign Language
9 essential questions that parents ask concerning
problems and issues of raising their children in a
bilingual home:
http://www.byu.edu/~bilingua/faq.html
- Learning
Two Languages: Questions Parents Ask
This update on the PBS website provides quick
answers to many questions parents have about the
challenges unique to bilingual/multilingual
children. Tips on how to create a supportive
and nurturing environment for a child's development
with language and literacy at home as well as
answers from experts, are discussed:
http://www.pbs.org/parents/readinglanguage/articles/multifamilies/print.html
http://www.pbs.org/parents/experts/archive/clarkgidney-diversity.html
- Raising
Bilingual Children
The Linguistic Society of America, provides 2
sets of questions regarding raising bilingual
children and definitions and the issues surrounding
bilingualism that may answer some of the questions
and concerns that parents may have still at this
point.
http://www.lsadc.org/info/ling-faqs-biling.cfm
http://www.lsadc.org/info/ling-faqs-biling_child.cfm
- Would You
Like Your Children to Speak in English & Spanish?
Written in both English and Spanish, this wonderful
site addresses the specific questions that parents
of Hispanic background may have for raising their
children in a Spanish environment. This is my
favorite website of them all, where they talk about
how to overcome a child's resistance to speaking the
Spanish, as if you were talking to a wall:
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/blpr/bilingualism.html
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