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 21 : issue 3 [download]

Main Articles

Rethinking Family Language Goals – Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa

What Makes a Successful Second Language Learner? – Silvine Faure

International Adoption & Bilingualism – Dr. des. I.M. Laversuch

The Happy Way to Teach and Learn French – Severine Greenland

Queries

Trilingualism & Catalan

Volume 21 : issue 2 [download]

Main Articles

Travelin’ and Testifyin’: a Bilingual Bondswoman’s Journey to Freedom – Dr. des. I.M. Laversuch

News from the USA: Plus ca Change – Jim Crawford

21 Years of the BFN: the Readers Speak – Sami Grover

Queries

One-Parent-Which-Language?

Are we starting too late?

Volume 21 : issue 1 [download]

Main Articles

My Language and I – Cristina Banfi

News from the USA: Has Two-Way Been Oversold – Jim Crawford

Biculturality: an Ideal or a Necessity? – Diane Frost

An Artificial Mother-Tongue – Judith Sørensen

Queries

Can bilingualism actually increase a child’s IQ?

Volume 20 : issue 4 [download]

Main Articles

Bilingualism: Benefits and Frustrations – Garrett Duncan

News from the USA: No Child Left Untested – James Crawford

Tales Without Sound: Designing Materials for Argentine Sign Language – Christina Banfi & Gabriella Bianco

Queries

Would a full-immersion Montessori school be a good way to revive our Native American language and culture?

Volume 20 : issue 3 [download]

Main Articles

Preserving Language from the Bottom Up: A Case Study from Micronesia – David A. Hough & Alister Tolenoa

News from the USA: NY Bucks the Trend – James Crawford

Creating a Bilingual Family in a ‘Monolingual’ Country – Leena Huss

Queries

How do we handle the addition of extra languages to our already trilingual family?

Our son refuses to speak English? How do we handle this situation?

Volume 20 : issue 2 [download]

Main Articles

An Advocate for Tolerance: a Biography of Jim Cummins – by Colin Baker

News from the USA: Numbers Game – by James Crawford

Trilingual Families Language Strategies – Helen Le Merle

Queries

Bilingualism & Dyslexia

Bilingualism & Toys

Volume 20 : issue 1 [download]

Main Articles

An Interview with François Grosjean, pt 2 – Judit Navracsis

News from the USA: A Dubious Victory – James Crawford

Are Bilinguals Better Language Learners? – Jasone Cenoz

Queries

Bilingualism & Adoption

Volume 19 : issue 4 [download]

Main Articles

Trilingual Pre-school Children & the Parents’ Role: A Case Study – Helen Le Merle

Talking Toys – Manuela González-Bueno

An Interview with François Grosjean, pt. 1 – Judit Navracsis

News from the USA: the End of an Era? – James Crawford

Queries

Our daughter is reluctant to speak French. What can we do?

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