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Sat Apr 30, 2005 12:50 am
Forum: Bilingual Education
Topic: How to make a child bilingual?
Replies: 15
Views: 23790

bilingual parenting

I have been researching this subject the last few days. What I have found is that in order for a child to learn a language, they have to have at least one person that speaks exclusively to him/her in that language. In many cases, the whole immediate family spoke one language, and only switched to la...
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Sat Apr 30, 2005 12:33 am
Forum: Bilingual Education
Topic: What is bilingual ed?
Replies: 9
Views: 10102

Bilingual education

I have been researching exactly this subject for the last few days. ESL focuses mostly on teaching a non-native English speaker to speak English. However, a bilingual program (although there are many different types of these) generally focus on teaching children in both their native language and ano...
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Fri Apr 29, 2005 11:58 pm
Forum: Bilingual Education
Topic: Speaking to a child in 2 languages
Replies: 7
Views: 9438

speaking in another language to your kid

I just wanted to let you know that there are a many other people doing the same thing you want to do, and that it's not as crazy as it sounds. I have been researching various bilingual things over the past few days, and discovered this site: http://esl.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=es...