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Author: Eowyn Crisfield
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Imprint: Multilingual Matters
Dimensions:
Width: 17.00cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 22.50cm
Weight: 0.344kg
ISBN: 9781788929349
ISBN 10: 1788929349
Pages: 120
Publication Date: 06 January 2021
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This is a clear, engaging, and accessible guide for parents who are interested in raising their children with more than one language. Evidence-informed, yet simultaneously structured and written so as to truly facilitate parents' reflection and engagement, it offers practical and realistic advice. A must-read for any parent interested in bestowing the gift of language onto their children. * Victoria A. Murphy, University of Oxford, UK *
This is a clear, engaging, and accessible guide for parents who are interested in raising their children with more than one language. Evidence-informed, yet simultaneously structured and written so as to truly facilitate parents' reflection and engagement, it offers practical and realistic advice. A must-read for any parent interested in bestowing the gift of language onto their children. * Victoria A. Murphy, University of Oxford, UK * Drawing on her extensive experience of working with families, educators, and policymakers concerned with language learning and multilingualism, Crisfield separates facts from fiction, offers a balanced assessment of the challenges as well as the opportunities associated with bilingual child-rearing, and provides immensely useful tools to guide discussion and rational decision-making within families. * Jim Cummins, University of Toronto, Canada * This book is a ground-breaking resource for all parents raising children bilingually. It not only explains the many contexts in which bilingualism can occur, but helps parents form the best plan for their particular multilingual situation. I will recommend it highly to many families I work with whose questions I couldn't answer before! * Ruth E. Van Reken, Co-author, Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds (3rd edn), Co-founder, Families in Global Transition * Bilingual Families is a much-welcomed guide not only for family reference but also for educators: it should belong in the library or staffroom of any school which is serious about considering the realities of bilingual and multilingual families. -- Leandro Paladino * EAL Journal, 2021 *
Author Information
Eowyn Crisfield is founder and principal of Crisfield Educational Consulting and Senior Lecturer in TESOL at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She has delivered her family language planning programme and insights through seminars, family language planning consultations, school consultations and her blog, On Raising Bilingual Children, for over 15 years. Eowyn and her mostly-monolingual partner are raising three multilingual children...with varying degrees of success!
