Product Description: If you would like your children to experience the benefits of becoming bilingual, but you aren’t sure how to teach them a second language, then Raising a Bilingual Child is the perfect step-by-step guide for you.
Raising a Bilingual Child provides parents with information, encouragement, and practical advice for creating a positive bilingual environment. It offers both an overview of why parents should raise their children to speak more than one language and detailed steps parents can take to integrate two languages into their child’s daily routine. Raising a Bilingual Child also includes inspirational first-hand accounts from parents. It dispels the myth that bilingualism may hinder a child’s academic performance and explains that learning languages at a young age can actually enhance a child’s overall intellectual development.
Excellent book! / Un libro excelente! Raising a Bilingual Child is a must for childcare providers, teachers, parents, or anyone who works with children. I love the Czech proverb that Barbara Zurer Pearson cited in this book " Learn a new language: get a new soul"
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La Dra. Pearson ha escrito un libro de consulta que todos los padres de familia y educadores deben de usar sobre todo en Estados Unidos. En un mundo global como el que vivimos es sumamente importante hablar mas de un lenguaje, el capítulo 8 acerca de la "Identidad Bilingue" es mi favorito. Recomiendo este libro ampliamente, no solo para leerlo sino para consultarlo constantemente.
A fantastic resource for parents who want to give their children the best education for the 21st century As a specialist in bilingual and world languages education, I am always on the look for good resources to recommend to parents. Zurer Pearson's book is a solid, well-researched, practical and easy-to-read tool for all those interested in raising their children in more than one language. I particularly like the author's encouragement words and recommendations for parents who are not native speakers of the second language of their choice. This book would make an excellent gift for expecting and new parents. The earlier, the better!
Raising a Bilingual Child I bought this book for a research paper I was doing for a sociolinguistics course that I am taking for my M.A. in Spanish. I was writing a paper about Spanish/English bilingualism in the U.S. This book was very useful to me in terms of the part of my paper that dealt with how one helps a baby to become bilingual. Of course, I used other sources and discussed also the difficulties involved with bilingualism in our current culture. But Barbara Pearson's book, as well as an article by her in a professional text, helped me tremendously with my research and subsequent paper.
Excelent, very very informative My husband and I speak different languages and we are expecting our first child. She is also my parents' first grandchild and they are crazy about her. Unfortunately, my parents do not speak English, and my in-laws do not speak Spanish. For us it is very important that our child has the best of both cultures and that she grows up as an independent child that is able to express herself.
We found this book interesting, very informative and easy to read. It is a great educational tool for parents who believe in spending time with their children rather than sitting them in front of the TV.
Easy to Read and Full of Great Academic Studies! Chapter Two on Learning a First Language is the best thing I have read on First Language Acquisition and I plan to tell the professors where I work that this is the text they should use for their courses on First and Second Language Acquisition (which I have taught for four years). The information is presented in a concise and easy to understand manner so that scholars and parents alike will find it useful and interesting. I think any parent or scholar would find this a useful resource whether they are looking to understand their child's development or trying to find research to back their claims on the benefits of bilingualism. This book is a gold mine of information backed in research. There is nothing that I have read so far on the market that explains all this in such detail and in such a easy way to understand. This is a must as a textbook for a class on language acquisition or as a manual for parents to use as a reference.
A SIGH OF RELIEF FOR ATTEMPTING TO BE BILINGUAL AT HOME After reading the introduction and the first chapter on The benefits of Childhood Bilingualism, I breathed a sigh of relief. I did not know until reading this book that there were so many other parents like myself who did not grow up speaking another language, yet they are teaching a second language to their children. The book discusses the phenomenon of so many Americans in this generation having the opportunity to travel and experience other languages and cultures. This has created a niche of people in the U.S. who are raising their children with the values and languages they acquired abroad. I live in an English-Only state with everyone questioning my reasons for bringing up my daughter in the two languages of Spanish and English. It is nice to find a home for my feelings and know there is a larger community of people out there who are following in the same footsteps towards bilingualism. Thank you for giving me hope and appreciation for what I am attempting to do by publishing this book.
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