Tag Archives: Bilingualism and Society

All non native parents are not equal

Posted in Non native-speaker by Bilingual For Fun
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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

Blogging Carnival on Bilingualism, April

Posted in Bilingualism by Bilingual For Fun
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Dear all, here we are for another Carnival. The family of bloggers involved is growing really nicely and this is really contributing to creating a debate on bilingualism and sharing ideas, doubts, tips and tricks. Most of all I think we can all feel less lonely on our journey, and that is of tremendous help when [...]
Posted on April 29, 2010

OPOL on the Beach

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I recently landed on a beach, together with A. of course, like most Italians this time of the year and I want to share some reflections on the experience of using the One Parent One Language technique (OPOL), outside of one’s habitat .
Posted on July 29, 2009

Bilingual children, grandparents and extended family

Posted in Bilingualism by L.
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Quite often in OPOL families parents give up using the minority language in presence of the extended family, a sign of respect towards those who don’t understand the language. It is certainly a very good thing to involve the whole family, but it doesn’t necessarily need to happen at the minority language’s expenses. And by [...]
Posted on July 2, 2009