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Bilingual by Choice

Raising Kids in Two (or more!) Languages

by Virginie Raguenaud
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Includes 100 creative activities and strategies for the home and community!
More and more people-hundreds of millions around the world-are living in bilingual homes. In the U.S. alone, more than 54 million people over the age of 5 speak a language other than English at home. Yet once children enter school, the pull toward one language becomes stronger and maintaining the bilingual advantage requires a serious family commitment - a bilingual choice. The good news is it's worth it.
Research shows that bilingual children are known to have more social, cultural and economic opportunities as they grow to adulthood and that learning a second language from birth can even result in protection against Alzheimer's later in life. Bilingual By Choice provides families with specific activities, games and insights that will show them how to not only teach their kids more than one language but also to help their kids retain and develop those language skills.
For parents, educators, immigrants and expatriates, Bilingual by Choice deals directly with the obstacles to sustaining a second language, including unsupportive relatives, issues at school, frequent relocations and discrimination, countering each one with the author's firsthand experience with both sides of the growing-up-bilingual journey, as a child and as a parent. Commit to the choice, and help your children become bilingual - for life.

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  • Release date

    December 15, 2010

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      • ISBN: 9781857884449

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      • ISBN: 9781857884449
      • File size: 2342 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      October 19, 2009
      Raguenaud, who is raising her twin daughters to speak both English and French, has tackled firsthand the challenges of raising bilingual children. She presents the research that supports early bilingualism and argues for the societal benefits of a bicultural life. Readers are pointed to external agencies, and there are creative activity suggestions for increasing vocabulary. Bilingual families, like homeschoolers, rely heavily on the materials and services of libraries, and this would be a nice addition to a collection supporting that effort.-Julianne J. Smith, Ypsilanti Dist. Lib., MI

      Copyright 2009 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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