Raising a Bilingual Child: A Step-by-Step Guide for Parents
There are mountains of evidence that strongly suggest lifelong benefits extending from childhood bilingualism. In RAISING A BILINGUAL CHILD: A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE FOR PARENTS, author and linguistics expert and UMass professor Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph.D., shows parents how to raise a bilingual child and realize these crucial intellectual and cultural benefits, while exploring the fascinating process by which children acquire language.
RAISING A BILINGUAL CHILD is an easy to follow manual that provides solid scientific arguments for raising a child bilingually, supplies parents with practical steps to integrating two (or more) languages into their child’s daily routine, and ultimately empowers parents to feel qualified and confident about proactively establishing building blocks that can lead to a lifetime of success for their children.
RAISING A BILINGUAL CHILD dispels the myths about childhood bilingualism and explains how it can enhance a child’s overall intellectual and emotional development. It also highlights some of the various reasons why both monolingual and bilingual parents choose to raise their children bilingually.
The book provides practical advice about creating the right home environment to encourage and support bilingualism, including such information as:
* How to keep it fun and encourage progression with consistent praise.
* Which daily activities should take place in the minority language
* How to find group activities for children to participate in that motivate bilingualism.
* How to organize the home for a child’s bilingual language development.
Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph.D., is back by popular demand. You may recall that Dr. Zurer Pearson joined Dinner on Us last fall while she was finishing up her book, and participants in our workshop provided feedback. Dr. Pearson's book, RAISING A BILINGUAL CHILD: A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE FOR PARENTS, has just been published and she has agreed to join us again for another discussion! We are honored to have her return.
Please come join us. All are welcomed. Simply call to pre-register.