FAQs
Do bilingual children feel confused?
No. Researches show that infants, toddlers and young children do not have any difficulty in using two languages.
Are bilingual children smarter?
Speaking two languages offer both linguistic benefits and other advantages. Children will gain language proficiency and competency along with improving their social understanding, memory and perform better in solving tasks and problems.
Is it a good way that mother or father just uses one language with a bilingual child?
It depends on the strategies and approaches you use to communicate and interact with your child. Infants, toddlers and early learners learn a second language from daily experiences of life and interactions with multiple language speakers. Sufficient exposure to specific language is very essential to young children and will determine the quality of language development children will acquire. Suggestions such as teaching words and phrases step by step as well as providing opportunities for your child to practice are highly recommended.
Do bilingual children start learning a language earlier?
Providing a rich, diverse, interesting, free, and interactive language environment in the early stages where children can participate in the literacy practices of language learning will enable them to learn a language early and easily. You should not lose hope when your child fails to speak a foreign language from birth. The brain develops progressively as children grow up. What parents can do is give more opportunities to your child, be patient and engage with your child in the daily experiences of language learning.
Do bilingual children feel confused?
No. Researches show that infants, toddlers and young children do not have any difficulty in using two languages.
Are bilingual children smarter?
Speaking two languages offer both linguistic benefits and other advantages. Children will gain language proficiency and competency along with improving their social understanding, memory and perform better in solving tasks and problems.
Is it a good way that mother or father just uses one language with a bilingual child?
It depends on the strategies and approaches you use to communicate and interact with your child. Infants, toddlers and early learners learn a second language from daily experiences of life and interactions with multiple language speakers. Sufficient exposure to specific language is very essential to young children and will determine the quality of language development children will acquire. Suggestions such as teaching words and phrases step by step as well as providing opportunities for your child to practice are highly recommended.
Do bilingual children start learning a language earlier?
Providing a rich, diverse, interesting, free, and interactive language environment in the early stages where children can participate in the literacy practices of language learning will enable them to learn a language early and easily. You should not lose hope when your child fails to speak a foreign language from birth. The brain develops progressively as children grow up. What parents can do is give more opportunities to your child, be patient and engage with your child in the daily experiences of language learning.
Tips for Parents
Attending playgroups with other bilingual families
Singing a song to children in the native language
Making up daily conversations or greetings in home language
Telling bedtime stories in home language as a daily routine
Creating daily games in home language
Taking advantage of social media to make connections with other family and community members
Teaching children dance, ballads, songs in the native language
Attending playgroups with other bilingual families
Singing a song to children in the native language
Making up daily conversations or greetings in home language
Telling bedtime stories in home language as a daily routine
Creating daily games in home language
Taking advantage of social media to make connections with other family and community members
Teaching children dance, ballads, songs in the native language
Suggested Resources
Books
Language , Power and Pedagogy: Bilingual Children in the Crossfire (Bilingual Education and Bilingualism)
Am I Small ? (English-Spanish, English-German, English-Japanese, English-Italian)
Language , Power and Pedagogy: Bilingual Children in the Crossfire (Bilingual Education and Bilingualism)
Am I Small ? (English-Spanish, English-German, English-Japanese, English-Italian)
Websites
http://bilingualmonkeys.com http://raisingchildren.net.au http://www.babble.com_ Games PBS Kids Go! http://pbskids.org/mayaandmiguel/espanol/games/index.html Red fish/Poisson Rouge http://www.poissonrouge.com/ Bilingual board games http://quemas.mamaslatinas.com/parenting/112556/5_bilingual_board_games_your |
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