"Multilingual children" refers to kids who can speak and understand more than one language.
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I write about life as an expat, the feeling of having several different «homes» scattered around the world, trying to
raise multilingual children in my cross-cultural, East - meets - West marriage, and of course traveling the world.
If so, learn from this Q&A with Nicole and Damir Fonovich, the co-creators of Luca Lashes, a line
of multilingual children's e-books and apps, who decided to forego contacting any agents or publishers and, instead, launched the entire series themselves.
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As multilingual children have different language backgrounds and experience, this allows assessment of their capacity to learn language, rather than comparing with what is «normal» where there are varied levels of existing knowledge.»
Listen to a story for families
raising multilingual children; a podcast interview with our MV biliteracy instructional guide, Berenice Pernalete, and Marianna DuBosq from Bilingual Avenue.
Raising
multilingual children has many benefits, so don't avoid speaking more than one language just so your toddler will speak more or sooner.
According to
the Multilingual Children's Association, infants actually can't be taught a language — instead, they acquire them.
Concern over low test scores often leads to misguided recommendations for educational segregation of
multilingual children, and can prompt excessive referral of multilingual children to speech - language pathology clinics, she said.
There are fascinating discussions from around the world with all sorts of different contexts;
multilingual children, silent periods, progress, and other common issues that connect us all.
The key steps to raising
a multilingual child include speaking in the target language consistently, listening to music and audiobooks, building a home library, and doing fun, hands - on activities!