Barron-Hauwaert Language Strategies for Bilingual Families

The one-parent-one-language Approach
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-1-85359-716-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 225 mm

Reihe: Parents' and Teachers' Guides

This book provides an inspiring approach to passing on two or more languages to your children through a focus on the one-person one-language approach. The book is grounded in academic research, but is both readable and relevant to non-academics and provides fascinating insights into being a multilingual family.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barron-Hauwaert, Suzanne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Barron-Hauwaert Suzanne:
Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert independently researches bilingual families and their language patterns. She is the author of Language Strategies for Bilingual Families: the one-parent-one-language approach (2004, Multilingual Matters). Suzanne is British, married to a Frenchman, and lives in France with their three bilingual children aged 13, 11 and 7. Suzanne advises families through Bilingual Support Groups in France and writes on education and bringing up children with two languages.Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert is on the Editorial Board of the Bilingual Family Newsletter. Married to a Frenchman with three young children she has direct experience of bringing up children with two or three languages. They have lived as an expatriate family in Hungry, Egypt and Switzerland. Suzanne trained as a teacher of English as a second language and taught adults and children in Japan and Poland. In 1999 she completed a Master's dissertation on trilingual families and continues to research bilingual and trilingual families.