Language and bilingualism Archives – Page 4 of 29

Q&A: When to introduce a family language to a child who will attend a trilingual school?

by Rita Rosenback | Oct 1, 2017 | Babies, Coaches, Language development, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, Rita R, School-aged children

Question Hi I live in Hong Kong where almost everyone is trilingual speaking Cantonese, Mandarin and English. The school I will send my baby, who is five months now, is a trilingual school that will begin at the age of two (Cantonese, Mandarin and English). My...

Q&A: Literacy: how to teach reading and writing when exposure time is limited?

by Rita Rosenback | Sep 24, 2017 | Challenges, Coaches, Literacy, Rita R

Question Good day, I am a German native living in South Africa. My husband is South African and speaks to my 3-year-old son English and the local language isiSetswana. I solely speak German to him. Since he goes to an English creche, English is his main...

Q&A: Which sign language to teach a child with Down syndrome in a bilingual family?

by Rita Rosenback | Sep 10, 2017 | Babies, Challenges, Coaches, Language development, Rita R, Toddlers

Question Hi, We are a family of three, and expecting our second child. Our daughter will be nearly four when her baby brother is due in November. I'm Finnish, my husband Irish, and we live in the US at the moment. Even if we use English together, I've used only...

Q&A: How can a single parent raise a bilingual child?

by Mary-Pat O'Malley-Keighran | Aug 31, 2017 | Babies, Coaches, Language development, Mary-Pat O'Malley-Keighran, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Single parent

Question Hey, I decided long time ago that I would want to make my possible future children multilingual. I have lived years abroad (English was and still is my study and work language), but recently moved back to Finland. I'm a native Finnish-speaker, but...

Q&A: How to motivate a school-aged child to speak the family’s minority language?

by Mary-Pat O'Malley-Keighran | Aug 13, 2017 | Coaches, Language development, Mary-Pat O'Malley-Keighran, Q&A How to motivate a bilingual / multilingual child to speak a family language, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, School-aged children

Question Hi, I have an 8-year-old son who had speech problems when he was little. He did not really start talking until maybe two. I was forced to choose a language for his speech therapy classes, I chose English. My problem now is that he understands Spanish...

Q&A: When to teach literacy in the minority language and how to support a bilingual child with a new language?

by Rita Rosenback | Aug 3, 2017 | Coaches, Literacy, Q&A Being the parent in a multilingual family, Rita R

Question Hi, My son is 3.5 years old. We are from South America (Colombia and Chile) so the language at home is Spanish. My son was born in Australia. He never attended child care there, so he was not exposed too much to English. Ten months ago, we moved to...

Q&A: How far behind can parents expect a bilingual child’s second language to be?

by Rita Rosenback | Jul 27, 2017 | Challenges, Coaches, Language development, Rita R

Question Hello, I have a three-year-old daughter who is bilingual. I speak exclusively English and my husband speaks exclusively Czech to her (since birth). In a typical day, she is exposed to about 70% English and 30% Czech. She listens to music and looks at...

Q&A: About language exposure, family language strategy, speaking a non-native language and confusion

by Rita Rosenback | Jul 13, 2017 | Babies, Coaches, Non-native language, Q&A Choosing the right family language strategy, Rita R

Question Hello, I am Italian but I know English very well so I really want to try to teach it to my one-year-old daughter. I speak English to her since she was three months old. In the beginning I thought to use the OPOL method but it's really hard for us,...

Q&A: Family language or a third language for a bilingual child’s education?

by Rita Rosenback | Jul 6, 2017 | Babies, Coaches, Literacy, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, Rita R

Question Hello I would like to ask for your thoughts on our idea to place our 4-and-a-half-year-old in an English-speaking school. We are a French family of four and after living in francophone countries, we moved to Lithuania last Sept. My son enrolled in the...

Q&A: Is a dual-language school a good choice for a bilingual child to become trilingual?

by Ute Limacher-Riebold | Jun 25, 2017 | Coaches, Non-native language, Q&A The trilingual+ child, Q&A When a bilingual / multilingual child goes to school, School-aged children, Ute Limacher-Riebold

Question Hello! My wife and I are native Russian speakers living in the United States. Our son is turning five in a few months and will start school. Our home language is 100% Russian. Our son speaks Russian at or slightly below the level of his peers in Russia...

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