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Language Strategies for Bilingual Families: The One-Parent-One-Language Approach (Parents' and Teachers' Guides, No. 7)

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Language Strategies for Bilingual Families: The One-Parent-One-Language Approach (Parents' and Teachers' Guides, No. 7)
Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert
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Designing and Implementing Two-Way Bilingual Programs: A Step-by-Step Guide for Administrators, Teachers, and Parents

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Designing and Implementing Two-Way Bilingual Programs: A Step-by-Step Guide for Administrators, Teachers, and Parents
Margarita Espino Calderon , and Liliana Minaya-Rowe
Manufacturer: Corwin Press
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ASIN: 0761945660

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"This book is certain to be an indispensable guide to planning and practice in dual language schools. It is practical, down-to-earth, and firmly based in broad experience and research."
Robert Slavin, Co-Director
Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk
Johns Hopkins University

"Calderón and Minaya-Rowe have done an excellent job of presenting relevant research along with practical examples and suggestions, all in a highly readable and user-friendly format. This volume is an indispensable tool for teachers, administrators, and parents involved with dual language programs."
Liz Howard, Research Associate
Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC

"This book is an excellent resource for educators interested in developing bilingual capacity in American school children."
Diane August, Director
National Literacy Panel on Language Minority Children and Youth

"A comprehensive compendium of dual language program implementation strategies and examples. An indispensable how-to book for school level administrators, teacher trainers, teachers, and parents."
Ana Maria Olezza, Director of Bilingual Programs
Hartford Public Schools, Connecticut

"This practical book can be used as a tool to transform schools into dual-language programs that focus on the improvement of school performance and language enrichment. It is written in a very pragmatic style and provides insights and frameworks supporting a school or district's systemic reform."
Anthony Amato, Superintendent
Hartford Public Schools, Connecticut

Use dual-language instruction to promote literacy in two languages!

How can you provide a bilingual learning experience that includes high levels of achievement for both English-language learners and English-dominant students? What can you do to include all students in the adventure of learning a new language? Two-way bilingual education helps children maintain their cultural language as well as learn a new language—an invaluable skill in an increasingly integrated world.

Designing and Implementing Two-Way Bilingual Programs provides essential elements to help your students gain literacy in two languages, increase cross-cultural understanding, and meet high levels of achievement in all core academic areas.

This excellent resource provides school administrators, teachers, and parents with the basic knowledge necessary for planning and implementing an effective two-way bilingual program by:

Promoting native-language literacy skills and balanced bilingualism
Providing a standards-based education while promoting proficiency in two languages
Helping all students gain cognitive and linguistic benefits from academic tasks that call for creativity and problem solving

This indispensable handbook also includes strategies for building learning communities for dual-language teachers, professional development plans that meet the specific needs of dual-language programs, and tips for involving parents.

A Parents' & Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism (Parents' & Teachers' Guides)

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Bilingual Children
Ad nauseam
Thorough Guide for the Inquiring Parent
For All Parents with a Bad Bilingual Conscience
Good message, shallow & repetitive content

A Parents' & Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism (Parents' & Teachers' Guides)
Colin Baker
Manufacturer: Multilingual Matters
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Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

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ASIN: 1853594555

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The second edition of this book provides an introduction of practical value to questions of bilingualism for parents and teachers. The style of the book is to pose questions that people most often ask about raising bilingual children. Straightforward answers follow, written in direct, plain English. Ideas and perceptions have been extended and enriched in this edition, and there has been elaboration and refinement in particular answers such as: the advantages of bilingualism; language mixing; trilingualism; and identity problems. Also a variety of new material has been included; for examples: influence of the World Wide Web and the Internet on bilingualism; the benefits for children who have a less developed second language; employment and bilingualism/multilingualism; mixed language marriages; and language strategies with an adopted child.

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Bilingual Children.......2007-02-08

If you're thinking about raising your child to be bilingual, this is the book to get. There's actually not much else out there currently. It's a little theoretical and not very practical in terms of day to day operation, but it's a great place to start in making a family language learning plan.

Ad nauseam.......2005-04-13

The author clearly knows his stuff, but is guilty of making a book out of the following contents

- Favour using your native language with the child if you speak other languages weakly
- One parent one language, avoid mixing two languages in the same context
- It's mostly not true that bi- and multilingual children get "confused"
- If your children have problems, it's probably not bilingualism's fault
- Use common sense
- Aren't my analogies beautiful?
- Use some more common sense

Now copy and paste this 2000 times and there you have the book.

Thorough Guide for the Inquiring Parent.......2005-01-19

After reading an excerpt via the "look inside" feature Amazon offers, I decided to give this book a try. As a parent debating whether to send her child to a dual language program (yes, there are different bilingual programs..read to find out!), this book answered many if not all of my questions. I liked the Q & A format, and found it easy to read (especially when time is limited with two young children). There isn't a lot of information out there about the effects of bilingual education on language majority children, and this is one book I found that addressed this. I was particularly concerned about my child's reading development (or lack of) if first taught in a language other than our own. The book did address this issue, and I've never found another that does! All parents want their child to succeed, so it is important for a book for parents to address issues such as this.

It's true the book is repetitive in some areas, but I believe this is due to the format. A reader might look up an answer to one question, but not bother to read the book straight through.

A few criticisms: It is a little slanted towards European language development. However, it appears that this is the author's area of expertise. I also would have liked to have citations to references. "Research shows..." is not enough information for me! Where did Mr. Baker get this information? I'm comforted that he does seem to be an expert in this field, as he has written textbooks on bilingual theory, but still...parents want references too!

For a parent who wants to know more about bilingual education and how it will affect their child's development, this is a good read. Overall, I found the advice sound and useful.

For All Parents with a Bad Bilingual Conscience.......2004-06-03

Colin Baker's handbook is a help for which bilingual parents have waited for too long a time. In this new edition, Baker includes the most recent research results in a format which allows perpetually busy parents to read according to their current perception of their individual set of language parenting problems. Nearly anything that can go right or wrong is treated somewhere in the course of these myriad questions. For ready reference, the questions are listed in the table of contents.

What tends to happen to the reader is, however, the following: You begin by looking up "your" question and read the very readable answers Baker offers - and just do not stop there. Suddenly you realize that there are many thousands of other parents with concerns much like your own, who are also asking interesting questions - and the television stays turned off for the rest of the evening.

We have bought this book for the reference of the parents and teachers in our International School. Because bilingual and multilingual children are not simply monolingual children with two or more languages at their disposal, raising them means adjusting to a different mode of thinking. For monolingual parents and teachers this means learning that such children will experience specific phases in their development, encounter specific advantages and disadvantages in their learning progress, which the monolingual adults did not experience in this way. Parents and teachers must learn to monitor the advancement of their children's learning in a manner congruent with an unfamiliar, but not threatening, reality. Colin Baker's book is one of the best works for teachers and parents who want to be able to assist bilingual and multilingual children in making the best possible use of their developmental opportunities.

Good message, shallow & repetitive content.......2003-05-15

This book confirms and repeats, over and over again, that bilingualism is a good thing, that there are no disadvantages to bilingualism, and that young children are, for the most part, good at learning languages. This should allay any unfounded fears parents may have that bilingualism might not be a good idea. The poor side of the book is that it can essentially be condensed into the above review. There is little or no practical advice on how parents can best bring up a baby to be bilingual short of those methods obvious to most people (e.g. "talk to your child"). The second half of the book covers different approaches in different schools. The message is good (if obvious), the content shallow.

Bilingualism in International Schools: A Model for Enriching Language Education (Parents' and Teachers' Guides)

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Bilingualism in International Schools: A Model for Enriching Language Education (Parents' and Teachers' Guides)
Maurice Carder
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This book presents a model for successfully instructing bilingual students in International Schools across the curriculum. In such schools there is now a majority of second language learners, and Carder presents a three-programme model which will provide content-based English-language skills, provide appropriate staff training, and develop students' mother tongues.

Being Bilingual: A Guide for Parents, Teachers, and Young People on Mother Tongue, Heritage Language and Bilingual Education

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Being Bilingual
An accessible approach to bilingualism.

Being Bilingual: A Guide for Parents, Teachers, and Young People on Mother Tongue, Heritage Language and Bilingual Education
Safder Alladina
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Only a bilingual person who is also an academic authority on language could have written this book. First, the author talks directly to bilingual parents and young people about the role of their home language and how they should -- and can be -- developed and maintained. Second, the author concisely analyzes the major research and significant academic books on bilingualism.

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Being Bilingual.......2001-07-28

Being Bilingual Safder Alladina Trentham Books. UK ISBN:1 85856 051 9 As a language teacher in Montreal, I found Safder Alladina's "Being Bilingual" very readable and informative. I think every language teacher and elementary school teacher would benefit greatly by reading this book. There are some elements and points of view which can only be learned from someone who comes from a minority language experience. It is written in simple language without being patronising. As well, it is attractively laid out and has wonderful illustrations. It is a must read for professionals in this field!

An accessible approach to bilingualism........2001-07-27

I am raising my child in Poland to be bilingual in Polish and English. I found "Being Bilingual" immensely helpful and supportive. Safder Alladina talks to parents in plain English without talking down to them. There are many ideas in the book which are useful to know about a child's language development. There are many concepts which I, as an ordinary parent, was not aware of. Safder Alladina's book has encouraged me to find and read other academic books on bilingualism --something I wouldn't have done before.

There are lovely pictures and cartoons in the book so I was even able to share the book with my three year old son. Thank you Safder for a lovely and helpful book.

Second Language Students in Mainstream Classrooms: A Handbook for Teachers in International Schools (Parents' and Teachers' Guides, No. 2)

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Second Language Students in Mainstream Classrooms: A Handbook for Teachers in International Schools (Parents' and Teachers' Guides, No. 2)
Coreen Sears
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Guia Para Padres Y Maestros De Ninos Bilingues (Parents' and Teachers' Guides, 5)

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Guia Para Padres Y Maestros De Ninos Bilingues (Parents' and Teachers' Guides, 5)
Alma Flor Ada , and Colin Baker
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