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Book Extracts

Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family: Chapter 2

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Learning_Read_Write

What bilingual or multilingual family is not at least curious about how to raise biliterate and multiliterate children? Yet it can seem like a daunting task. Helping our children speak another language may already be a challenge, how can we even begin to think about teaching our children to read and write in additional languages? [...]

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Multilingual ABC

The ABCs of Multilingual Parenting: The Letter R

by Corey
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R is for… Read, Read, Read! We are hitting the letter R just in time for our series of posts on biliteracy! How perfect! When it comes to multilingual parenting, the key is to incorporate reading every way you can. Here are some examples that can make all the difference in your multilingual household: Make [...]

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read & write

Biliteracy: Teach Your Bilingual Child to Read and Write in Your Language

by Corey
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Photo credit: Alan Cleaver School is finishing in many places around the world. Children are looking forward to lazy days on the grass, swimming under the hot sun and chasing sprinkler rainbows across the yard. Ah, the joys of childhood. Summertime is also a time for reading – under trees, on the beach, lounging on [...]

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Award

We Won the Multilingual Matters Award for Multilingualism in the Community!

by Corey
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Multilingual Living is delighted to announce that we won the 2010 Multilingual Matters Award for Multilingualism in the Community! I cannot even begin to tell you what an honor it is to win this award from such a respected group of multilingual experts.

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Language Challenge 101

Language Challenge 101: Let the Spanish Language Learning Begin!

by Corey
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Are you up for the challenge? Of course you are! Many of you have read the magazine, have read the blog posts, and have sent me emails asking how, exactly, one goes about learning a new language together with kids. I hear you! It just isn’t as straightforward as we’d all like it to be, [...]

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Activities

Language Activity: Choose Books Without Words!

by Corey
Multilingual-Bilingual Children Language Activities

Multilingual Living reader, Ida, sent in the following creative reading tip.  Thank you Ida for taking the time to share this with us! We all know that books are important for the child’s language development and that they can be used as a wonderful source of new words. This is especially true for parents that [...]

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Interviews

Multilingual Lives Interview with Prof. Aneta Pavlenko

by Corey
Prof. Aneta Pavlenko (left) and Prof. Jean-Marc Dewaele (right)

A delightful conversation between Prof. Aneta Pavelenko and me (Corey Heller) was the inspiration for this line of Multilingual Lives interviews which first appeared in Multilingual Living Magazine.  As these interviews show, the joy of multilingualism is that we are not tied down to one language and one culture.  We find identity and enjoyment from [...]

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