Monthly Archives: September 2009

Second Blogging Carnival on Bilingualism

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The second Blogging Carnival on Bilingualism went live today, hosted at Blogging on Bilingualism. I think this is a great resource for all bilingual parents, as Blogging on Bilingualism beautifully pointed out “the commonality of the bilingual journey ties us together”. Enjoy the Carnival! And if you are a blogger join us, you can submit your [...]
Posted on September 30, 2009

Bilingualism Makes Children Smarter

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Another interesting article on Bilingualism: Bilingualism Makes Children Smarter. The article reports the results of a research conducted in Belgium by Prof. Van de Craen. Funny enough last week I attended a very interesting conference on bilingualism (more on this later, a lot more actually, hopefully not a lot later) and there I attended  a speech [...]
Posted on September 29, 2009

How to praise to boost motivation

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Children will speak a language, any language, only if they have a reason to, in other words if they are motivated, and one of the trickiest parts of raising a bilingual child is to understand what motivation is and how to trigger it. Praise and reward certainly stand out among the tools most used to [...]
Posted on September 23, 2009

Pro and Contra of Praise

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Let’s keep talking about praise, to understand if and how it actually motivates children to speak the second language. We all use praise, hands up if you don’t get overexcited every time the little one says a new word in the second language, or a sentence, or even (can’t believe that!) a whole reasoning! But do we know what [...]
Posted on September 20, 2009

Is praise always a good thing?

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Your 3 year old says a whole new sentence in …. (fill in with your minority language), what do you do? Jump with joy? Open a bottle of champagne? Head for the toy shop to buy him a reward gift? I bet most parents, like me, would at least be very happy and proud and praise [...]
Posted on September 17, 2009

Tv, children and language, part 2

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We mentioned earlier that there are two fundamentals questions that need to be answered with regards to TV and bilingualism How bad is TV for children? Do TV and DVD support language learning? Here we’ll look at second question and see what experts think about it. Very young children learn from interactions, i.e. from playing [...]
Posted on September 3, 2009

TV, children and language, part 1

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TV and DVD are often part of children’s lives, and more and more are used to “teach” children a language. Is this right or wrong? Is TV a language learning tool or a brain killing device? I have done some research on the subject and I want to share the results with you. With regards [...]
Posted on September 1, 2009