The Bilingual Family Newsletter: Archives

Editor: Sami Grover

This exciting quarterly publication, now in its 25th year, is designed to help all those families who, for various reasons, are in a situation where they can give their children (and themselves) the advantages of being bi- or multi-lingual. The newsletter publishes short informative articles on current thoughts on language learning, bilingualism, biculturalism, mother tongue, schools, etc. It also publishes descriptions of how particular families have managed in their particular situations, problems encountered and how these were overcome. Readership: mixed marriage families; expatriate families in embassies, schools, contract work etc.; immigrant families; students of language learning; researchers in field of bilingualism. If you enter a subscription, you will be provided with a password giving you free access to the archive of back issues.

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Volume 25 : issue 2 [download]

Main Articles

Even the Experts Worry... - Alex Poole

Notes from the OPOL Family: A Sporting Chance - Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert

Book Review: Raising Children as Bilinguals

Bilingualism and Learning Difficulties - Barbara Dodd, Gayle Hemsley and Carol Stow

Queries

Homeschooling in French: Too Much, Too Young? - Carole Paquis

Volume 25 : issue 1 [download]

Main Articles

Translation and the Bilingual Child - Cristina Banfi

Notes from the OPOL Family: You Must Be Joking - Suzanne Barron-Hauwert

My Favourite Myths About Bilingualism - Francois Grosjean

Nurturing Natural Multilingualism - Karin Speedy

Volume 24 : issue 4 [download]

Main Articles

Culture Shock: Received Wisdom and a Grain of Salt - Joseph Shaules

Notes from the OPOL Family - Suzanne Barron-Hauwert

The Effects of a Bilingual Upbringing on Adult Life - Constanze Taylor

Volume 24 : issue 3 [download]

Main Articles

Kenya, Belgium, Iran: This Multilingual Life - Nathalie Tamigneaux

Notes from the OPOL Family: Our American Dream - Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert

'Artificial' Bilingualism Through French Summer Camp - Kathryn Engel

Remembering our Cultural Heritage - Maria Luisa Retana

Queries

Visual vs Aural Learning in Multilinguals

Volume 24 : issue 2 [download]

Main Articles

Naturally Bilingual - Christine Kinoshita

Towards a Truly Multicultural Education in Colombia - Anne-Marie de Mejia

Notes from the OPOL family: Battling with the Ancestors

Queries

Bilingualism and Developmental Disorders

Volume 24 : issue 1 [download]

Main Articles

Waltham Forest Bilingual Group: Supporting All Multilingual Families - Claire Thomas

Notes from the OPOL Family: Mathematically Challenged Mother - Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert

Bilingualism in Norway: Language Attitudes in an International School - Joke Ingrid Dewilde

Parenting a Bilingual Child With Aspergers Syndrome: An Interview With Susan Rubinyi

Queries

Moving Again - Another Language?

Volume 23 : issue 4 [download]

Main Articles

Signing as Bilingual Language Aid - Sydelle Holmgaard

Bilingualism & Aphasia - Dr I.M. Laversuch

Mother Tongues First: ID21 - Carol Benson

Notes From the OPOL Family: On the Road Again - Suzanne Barron-Hauwert

Helping a Literacy Deprived Child - Karima M. Almazroui

Volume 23 : issue 3 [download]

Main Articles

Growing up Bengali in the UK: An Interview with Mona-Lisa Mukherjee – Sami Grover

AZBUKA: Bringing UK Minority-language Education into the 21st Century – Maria Gavrilova

The Professor as Parent – Colin Baker

Taking Your Minority Language Home: Teaching the Minority Language in School Time – Ann Giles

Queries

Can signing help spoken-language acquisition?

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