Here’s the latest Carnival on Bilingualism at Bilingualreaders , with lot’s of new blogs participating and really interesting topics covered!
Have a look!
Category Archives: Bilingualism
January’s Carnival on Bilingualism!
10 bloggers and a Carnival, on Bilingualism
Welcome to the Blogging Carnival on Bilingualism, a monthly get-together for all interested in bilingualism and in raising bilingual children and an opportunity to share experiences, info and best practices.
Raising bilingual children is seldom as straightforward as one would think, or hope, and it can be a bit lonely if you live in a monolingual [...]
Second Blogging Carnival on Bilingualism
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 [...]
How to praise to boost motivation
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 [...]
Pro and Contra of Praise
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 [...]
Is praise always a good thing?
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 [...]
Tv, children and language, part 2
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 [...]
TV, children and language, part 1
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 [...]
Bilingualism at 23 months, III
One interesting component of A.’s recent speech development is that he now sings! Music has always been a strong presence in his life, I always played lot’s of music for him and sang to him. He never used a pacifier, or a comfort object or anything like that, all he needs to calm down and [...]
Things I’ve done…
I owe you an explanation, I know… What’s up with me? Lot’s actually…
Now as most of you know, to be true to my mission to bilingualism I run two blogs, Bilingual for Fun, in EN, and Bilingue per Gioco, in Italian. Well I realised I wasn’t getting what I wanted out of either and decided [...]