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Episode 37 - Raising a bilingual child

Adam Beck, blogger and author of, "Maximize Your Child's Bilingual Ability" discusses strategies for successfully raising a bilingual child.
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Raising a Bilingual Child

Episode 37
​Benefits of Raising a Child Bilingual
  • Spend time bonding with child
  • Can communicate with extended family 
  • Future professional opportunity
  • Social opportunities
  • Can pass the language abilities to future generations

Common Challenges
  • Parents can underestimate what the challenges are
  • Need to provide sufficient language exposure
  • When child grows they will hear a lot more of the majority language
  • Can be hard to find time to give them adequate language exposure

Different Approaches
  • Research study found following results for success rates using different approaches:
  • 1) Both parents used only minority language at home had success rate of 96.92
  • 2) One parent uses minority language and other parent uses both languages success rate 93.4%
  • 3) Both parents use both language 79.18 percent
  • 4) One parent uses majority language and other uses minority language 74.2%
  • 5) One parent uses both languages and the other uses just majority language 35.70%
  • One parent one language can have lower success rate if the minority language parent does not spend enough time with the child speaking the language
  • Lack of success acquiring a second language usually result from lack of exposure and lack of need to use the language
  • Have to match circumstances to aims

Habits and Routines to Develop Language Skills
  • Read to child
  • Play games
  • Online conversations with websites like italkie
  • Can have homestay guests who speak target language
  • Au-Pair can live with family
  • Older playmates and tutors can engage with child in language weekly
  • Find playgroups in target language
  • Play music in target languages
  • Find wordless picture books - can narrate stories, explore pictures, will work with any language
  • Need steady stream of quality resources in target language
  • Cooperative Board Games are great for developing language

Supporting Children at School
  • Children will learn majority language through exposure and grow quickly
  • While they are acquiring the language can receive additional support such as tutor they visit, having time at home when they read in the language they are acquiring
  • Giving teachers a list of words in the language they speak at home to help the child in the classroom communicate basic needs

Maximize Your Child's Bilingual Ability
Bilingual Monkeys: Ideas and inspiration for raising bilingual kids (without going bananas)
The Bilingual Zoo: A lively online community for parents of bilingual & multilingual kids

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