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 15 : issue 2 [download]

Main Articles

Bilingualism and Identity – Nicola Küpelikilinç

Inside the Reader: An Important Piece of Research – Colin Baker

Two Polyglots, Three Languages – Barney Bérubé

Spotlight on the Editorial Board: Jayson Campeau

Comments from a Dutch Speech Therapist – Lea Baker

Queries

Artificial Bilingualism

Volume 15 : issue 1 [download]

Main Articles

You Did WHAT To Your Daughter? – Stephen M. Ryan

Spotlight on the Editorial Board: Anne-Marie de Mejia

Bilingualism: a Shared Experience? – Rose-Marie Aghdami

Fostering a Language Playfully – Birgit Szymanski

Queries

Help for a teenager in a foreign country

Volume 14 : issue 3 [download]

Main Articles

Where East Meets West: Language Development of Japanese Children in Britain – Asako Yamada-Yamamoto

Spotlight on the Editorial Board: Leena Huss

Queries

Adoption and Bilingualism

Volume 14 : issue 2 [download]

Main Articles

Street & School Language – Colin Baker

Spotlight on the Editorial Board: Birgit Szymanski

Language Acquisition of an English-Japanese Bilingual Child – Peter Wanner

The Trials and Tribulations of a Bilingual Teenager – Tommi Grover

Queries

How do I teach my children Grandmothers’ language?

How do you support a non-written minority language e.g. Swiss German?

Volume 14 : issue 1 [download]

Main Articles

Can You Help Me Please? – Paola Crépin-Lanzarotto

Spotlight on the Editorial Board: Alathea Anderssohn

Distinguishing Communicative Difference from Language Disorder in Bilingual Children – Li Wei, Niklas Miller & Barbara Dodd

Intentional Bilingualism: Slovak-English Bilingual Family in Slovakia – Jozef Stefanik

Dutch/French/English Trilingualism – Mei Zegers

Queries

How do I help my husband learn Dutch?

Volume 13 : issue 4 [download]

Main Articles

Fifty Years Ago: Christmas 1946 - Alathea Anderssohn

Language Learning Can Be Fun – Birgit Szymanski

French, English, Spanish & Catalan in One Family – Richard A. Pike

Queries

I am separating from my husband. How do I continue with our so far successful bilingual upbringing?

How do I keep my 8 year old’s Italian alive in the US?

Volume 13 : issue 3 [download]

Main Articles

A New Approach to Bilingual Family Parenting – Mary Goebel Noguchi

Spotlight on the Editorial Board: Renato Corsetti & Ana Lowenstein

Economy vs. Culture – Jozef Stefanik

Bilingual Homeschooling & Biliteracy – David Carlson

A Case of Passive Bilingualism – Manjula Datta

Queries

How many languages can a child cope with?

Volume 13 : issue 2 [download]

Main Articles

Bilingualism: the Inside Story – Rose-Marie Aghdani

Spotlight on the Editorial Board: Deirdre Condon

Sister Schools/ Escuelas Gemelas – M.J. Rosanova

Queries

What do you do when a child refuses to speak the majority language?

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