The Bilingual Family Newsletter: Archives

Editor: Sami Grover

This exciting quarterly publication, now in its 23rd 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. 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 6 : issue 4 [download]

Main Articles

Holding Up the Bridge: Moving Between Two Cultures – Georgia Koumandari

Adjustment & Failure – Andrea Georgiou

Volume 6 : issue 3 [download]

Main Articles

Bilingualism in a Contrived Language Environment – Angela Mok

Maintaining Bilingualism for Older Children – Marjukka Grover

Queries

My husband wants our daughter to still attend a French-speaking school when we move to Germany, though her French is currently stronger. Is this the right decision?

Volume 6 : issue 2 [download]

Main Articles

Multilingual Exposure for Profoundly Deaf Children – H.W. Burton

Growing Up Bilingual: Angela’s Story – Domenico Maceri

Queries

As a single parent, how should I go about bringing up my child to be bilingual?

If minority language input is rare outside the home, is it best to use it as the only home language?

Volume 6 : issue 1 [download]

Main Articles

French from Three-and-a-half in a Usually Monolingual Family – Marion Colledge

Bilingualism in Children of Mixed Marriages – Sally Lamm

Queries

Our 21 month-old son is just beginning to talk in Italian and English. Would sending him to a French playgroup be too much?

Will 3 languages confuse our daughter?

How can you develop bilingualism in two very different languages with different scripts e.g. English and Arabic?

Volume 5 : issue 4 [download]

Main Articles

Increasing Language Ability Through Reading Activities – Sarah Rilling

Teaching Children to Read Early: A Good Idea? – Margaret Crick

Changing Family Language Patterns? – Clarissa Barton-Sayarer

Queries

We are using the One-Parent-One-Language method. Our son often uses the “wrong” language with the wrong parent. How should we correct him?

Volume 5 : issue 3 [download]

Main Articles

Good Advice? – George Saunders

Language Development of a German-English Bilingual Child, pt. 2 – Reinhold & Maureen Trott

Parents of Bilingual Families Meet – George Saunders

Queries

Can a bilingual child learn the community well, even if they have no community-language input at home?

Volume 5 : issue 2 [download]

Main Articles

Language Development of a German-English Bilingual, pt.1 – Reinhold & Maureen Trott

The Creation of a Bilingual Child – Michael & Leena Fahmy

In Defence of German Schools – Deborah Lehman-Irl

Volume 5 : issue 1 [download]

Main Articles

Some Reflections on Seven Years of Bilingual Language Acquisition – Michael Clyne

Sign Language: “Poetry in Motion” – Hilary Sutherland

Flourishing Even With Four Languages – Nancy C. Peláez

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