Family Language Learning: Learn Another Language, Raise Bilingual Children
- ISBN-10
- 1783092807
- ISBN-13
- 9781783092802
- Category
- Family & Relationships
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-01
- Publisher
- Multilingual Matters
- Author
- Christine Jernigan
Description
Family Language Learning is a practical guide designed to support, advise and encourage any parents who are hoping to raise their children bilingually. It is unique in that it focuses on parents who are not native speakers of a foreign language. It gives parents the tools they need to cultivate and nurture their own language skills while giving their children an opportunity to learn another language. The book combines cutting-edge research on language exposure with honest and often humorous stories from personal interviews with families speaking a foreign language at home. By dispelling long-held myths about how language is learned, it provides hope to parents who want to give their children bilingual childhoods, but feel they don't know where to start with learning foreign languages.
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