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 2 : issue Special Issue [download]

Main Articles

Yiddish Language & Culture

About the Editors of this Issue: Joshua and Gella Fishman

What is Yiddish, and what are its Special Problems?

Four Interviews: Case Studies

Examples of Paths to Yiddish

A Basic Bibliography for Bilingual Yiddish Families

Volume 2 : issue 4 [download]

Main Articles

Making My Children Bilingual, and Keeping Them That Way! – François Grosjean

Four Languages Round the Dinner Table, pt.2 – Robert Phillipson & Tove Skutnabb-Kangas

Bilingualism in a Third Culture – Barbara Suzuki

Reflections of a Trilingual Teenager – Ayla Çetin

Queries

When should you introduce the minority (or non-community) language to a child?

Volume 2 : issue 3 [download]

Main Articles

Introducing Members of our Advisory Board: Michael & Leena Fahmy

Four Languages Round the Dinner Table, pt. 1 – Robert Phillipson and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas

Queries

How do you keep the minority/home language strong after a child enters nursery school?

Volume 2 : issue 2 [download]

Main Articles

An Introduction to Members of our Advisory Board: the Peirce Family, France

The Monolingual Vs. the Bilingual View of Bilingualism – François Grosjean

Bilingual Humour

Queries

We have been advised not to try developing both languages to the same level in our child. Does this make sense?

Should two languages be introduced simultaneously, or one at a time?

Volume 2 : issue 1 [download]

Main Articles

In Defence of Saturday Schools – Mike Grover

A Case of Family Language Planning – Ken George

Queries

Isn’t pretending to not understand if your child uses the ‘wrong’ language harmful?

How should parents converse with each other if they are bringing their children up with the One-Parent-One-Language method?

Will it matter if we use two names for our son from different languages?

Volume 1 : issue 4 [download]

Main Articles

Introducing Members of the Advisory Board: the Byram Family, England.

Educating our Bilingual Family at Home – Michael & Marie Thérèse Byram

School & the Bilingual Child – Ann Mason

Queries

What are the alternatives to One-Parent-One-Language?

Should I speak my language to my son, even in front of others who do not speak it?

Am I doing the right thing teaching my bilingual son to read in English only?

How can we raise our children to speak English and Spanish, even though the community language is Catalan?

Our son speaks German, though we address him in English. Will this confuse our daughter? Also, our son has developed a slight stutter, should we have this looked at?

I speak different languages to my two sons. How can I use the same language with both?

Volume 1 : issue 3 [download]

Main Articles

Introducing Members of our Editorial Board: Dai & Siân Evans

Bilingualism & Saturday Schools – Hannele Branch

Listening to Your Children Read Can Make Them Better Readers – George Saunders

Queries

How do you teach literacy in two languages with two different scripts?

Is 8 months too early for a second language?

Can I speak a different with my baby than with my husband?

Volume 1 : issue 2 [download]

Main Articles

Introducing Members of Our Advisory Board: The Di Biase Family

An Interview with a Turkish-English Bilingual – George Saunders

Mother-tongue Playgroups for Pre-School Bilingual Children – George Saunders

An American English-French Bilingual Family – Marianne Celce-Murcia

Queries

Where can I learn my Pakistani husband's language?

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