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Monthly Archives: May 2009
The expert answers: Does Trilingualism cause Confusion or Delays?
In order to better answer your questions Bilingual for Fun is hosting some experts on Bilingualism. Today Professor Sorace answers the question Giovanni sent us, Giovanni has a trilingual child and some real concerns about his linguistic development.
Antonella Sorace is professor of Developmental Linguistics at the University of Edimburgh, and together with her team created Bilingualism [...]
Posted on May 27, 2009
My baby is bilingual, how can I help him learn English too?
I’ll give a straight answer to this question (which I’m hearing quite often now): Don’t.
English is clearly the one language we all need to speak now, so all to often parents of bilingual children are worried that their child should learn English early on too, but obviously don’t know how to go about it. [...]
Posted on May 25, 2009
Children who can speak two languages are better at learning a third language
This interesting article based on research from Nothwestern University shows how bilingual children are better at learning a new foreign language than monolingual children. The implications are ery relevant for all multilingual and international families, who don’t need to worry about their kids learning English too early on (when English is not part ofb the [...]
Posted on May 25, 2009
Do Language Classes deliver Bilingual Children?
We have been talking about kindergarten schooling options for bilingual children, and we’ll soon talk about primary schools too, however let’s spend few word also on language classes.
For parents that would like their children to grow bilingual, language classes are often considered an alternative to international/bilingual schooling, a less intense but a far less expensive [...]
Posted on May 21, 2009
Learning a second language is good childhood mind medicine, studies find
An interesting article on Bilingual Children from the Cornell language Acquisition Lab.
The article confirms that bilingualism has no negative impact on children, on the contrary it stimulates them positevely, and it also gives some very useful practical tips to parents, which I copy below (however I still encourage you to read the whole article):
Tips to [...]
Posted on May 19, 2009
5 ways to react when Bilingual Children mix languages
Does your child start a sentence with one langue and finish it with another? Yes, that happens a lot, but what this really means strongly depends on how you react to that. If you think you just react normal, keep reading, there are at least 5 different ways of reacting normal, they are all normal, [...]
Posted on May 10, 2009
Bilingual Preschoolers: Day Nursery and Kindergarten for Bilingual Children in Italy
Schooling is a big issue for all expat families. Is it better to send the kids to a local school, where they’ll learn the local language and integrate in the local society, or to send them to an international school, where they’ll grow with a more international profile and culture, but might risk living in [...]
Posted on May 5, 2009
Research proves Bilingual Babies have better mental skills.
The Research has been conducted and published by Kovacs and Mehler at the Language, Cognition and Development Lab in Trieste (Italy). However the scientific publication is probably more than the most of us would ask for, so I’d rather offer you this review as published on another blog (all details below):
Bilingual infants have better mental control
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Posted on May 4, 2009
Summer vacation options for Italian-English bilingual children
Tags English, Holidays and Bilingualism, Italian, Non native-speaker, Playgroup, Support for Expat Families