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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 4 : issue 4 [download]
Main Articles
One-Person-One-Language: Is It Always the Best Approach? – Constanze Taylor
Bringing Up Children Bilingually: A Look at Some Recent Literature for Parents – George Saunders
Meeting of Parents of Bilingual Families – Mike Grover
Queries
Learning Bengali in the UK
Volume 4 : issue 3 [download]
Main Articles
La Dulingvismo Kaj Esperanto: Bilingualism and Esperanto – George Saunders
Teaching a Trilingual Child to Read – Ana Brennan
When is a Mistake not a Mistake? – Gail Schaefer Fu
Queries
Will it confuse children if parents change the home language on moving countries?
Volume 4 : issue 2 [download]
Main Articles
To Speak or Not To Speak Two Languages or The Emotional Difficulties of the Bilingual Child – Ana Vivet
The First World Conference of Voluntary Finnish Language Schools – Leena Wigham
Queries
My husband is the main full-time carer for our child and speaks the majority language. How can we support the minority language?
Volume 4 : issue 1 [download]
Main Articles
Morocco: Where Bilingualism is the Norm – Abdelâli Bentahila
A British-style Education Overseas – Angela Magness
Bilingual Families in Japan – Sue Neill
Queries
Our three youngest children understand English but speak only Japanese. Is it too late to remedy this situation?
Should we continue to encourage the home language when our child starts school?
Volume 3 : issue 4 [download]
Main Articles
Introducing Members of our Advisory Board: Marjukka & Mike Grover
In Defence of the Monolingual Mother – Gail Schaefer Fu
Queries
How can we juggle English, French, two different dialects of Swiss German, AND High German, which my daughter will learn at school?
Volume 3 : issue 3 [download]
Main Articles
Developing Bilingualism: Two World Views? – Alvino & Beatriz Fantini
“Artificial” Bilingualism – George Saunders
Bilingualism with a Difference – Andrea Facey
Queries
Is there a danger our imperfect German will limit our children’s language development?
Does bilingualism improve children’s school performance in general?
How do we encourage the home language once our child has started school?
Volume 3 : issue 2 [download]
Main Articles
Introducing Members of our Editorial Board: Simon & Kayoko Sanada
Teaching Children to Read at Home: a Look at Some of the Literature – George Saunders
Early Reading as a Means of Reinforcing & Enriching the Home Language of a Bilingual Child – Deborah Lehman-Irl
Volume 3 : issue 1 [download]
Main Articles
Raising Children with Two Languages in Japan – Stephanie Ryan
Video Casettes from Abroad – George Saunders
Health Workers and Bilingual Families – George Saunders
Bilingualism & Biculturalism: A Health Visitor’s Point of View – Mrs M. Warden
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