Category Archives: Non native-speaker

All non native parents are not equal

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I’m keeping the promise I made to Blogging on Bilingualism (or rather the blogger behind it) and I want to come back on the topic of non native parents raising bilingual children, or rather parents raising children bilingual in a language that is not their mother tongue.
All non native parents are not equal. Whether the [...]

Posted on May 9, 2010

Bilingual children in non bilingual families

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Since I started talking about bilingual children in non bilingual families, mostly on my italian blog Bilingue per Gioco, I have been flooded with testimonials from non native speaker parents who are going through this experience. It was really a great surprise, this is a form of bilingualism nobody talks about, there’s absolutely no research [...]

Posted on April 29, 2010

8 reasons why you don’t have to be a native speaker to teach your child a language

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More and more parents are teaching their children a second language they themselves don’t speak as native speakers. Even more parents would like to do but don’t dare. The assumption that only native speakers can teach their children a second language is deep rooted but not supported by any evidence, on the contrary, it is [...]

Posted on October 29, 2009