<div><br clear="all">Raising a Bilingual Child: Leff (Ed)<br><br><br>Title: Raising a Bilingual Child <br>Subtitle: A step-by-step guide for parents <br>Published: 2008 <br>Publisher: Random House<br> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/">http://www.randomhouse.com/ </a><br>
<br>Book URL: <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400023349&ref=lex&name=RBCLinguist">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400023349&ref=lex&name=RBCLinguist </a><br>
<br>Editor: Jenny Leff <br>Paperback: ISBN: 1400023343 9781400023349 Pages: 368 Price: U.S. $ 14.95<br>Abstract:<br><br>Becoming Bilingual… All the Cool Kids Are Doing It <br><br>Madonna's doing it, Johnny Depp is doing it, and so is Antonio Banderas. <br>
Each of these celebrities is raising their children bilingually. There are <br>mountains of evidence that strongly suggest lifelong benefits extending <br>from childhood bilingualism. In Raising a Bilingual Child: A Step-by-Step <br>
Guide for Parents (April 15, 2008; $14.95), author and linguistics expert <br>Barbara Zurer Pearson, PhD, shows parents how to raise a bilingual child <br>and realize these crucial intellectual and cultural benefits, while <br>
exploring the fascinating process by which children acquire language. <br><br>Raising a Bilingual Child is an easy to follow manual that provides solid <br>scientific arguments for raising a child bilingually, supplies parents with <br>
practical steps to integrating two (or more) languages into their child's <br>daily routine, and ultimately empowers parents to feel qualified and <br>confident about proactively establishing building blocks that can lead to a <br>
lifetime of success for their children. <br><br>Raising a Bilingual Child dispels the myths about childhood bilingualism <br>and explains how it can enhance a child's overall intellectual and <br>emotional development. It also highlights some of the various reasons why <br>
both monolingual and bilingual parents choose to raise their children <br>bilingually: <br><br>*Utilitarian Reasons—bilinguals have an advantage in the job market. A <br>University of Miami study concluded that bilinguals earn more than <br>
monolinguals. <br>*Cultural Reasons—bilingualism can improve relationships with extended <br>family for their children. Language can give children special access to <br>artifacts, customs, and rituals that define their heritage. <br>
*Adoption—monolingual parents want their children adopted from abroad to <br>identify with their heritage. <br><br>The book provides practical advice about creating the right home <br>environment to encourage and support bilingualism, including such <br>
information as: <br><br>*How to keep it fun and encourage progression with consistent praise. <br>*Which daily activities should take place in the minority language <br>*How to find group activities for children to participate in that motivate <br>
bilingualism. <br>*How to organize the home for a child's bilingual language development. <br><br>About the Author <br><br>Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph.D., is a Research Associate in Linguistics and an <br>Adjunct Professor in the Department of Communication Disorders at the <br>
University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She has over twenty years of research <br>experience in the fields of language acquisition and bilingualism and did <br>ground-breaking work on bilingual acquisition and assessment with her <br>
research group at the University of Miami. Most recently, Dr. Pearson <br>worked on the Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation (DELV), a project <br>to develop an innovative language assessment for children funded by the <br>
National Institutes of Health. </div>
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